"Sit down, Helen.

You must keep quiet." For she was in a state of excitement such as, since her widowed days, had never been betrayed by Helen Bruce.
"These debts must be paid, and immediately.

The bare thought of them nearly drives me wild.

But you shall not pay--do not think it," she added, almost fiercely.

"See what my son himself says--and thank God he had the grace to say it--that I am on no account to go to you; that he 'will turn writer's clerk, or tutor, or any thing, rather than encroach farther on Lord Cairnforth's generosity.'." "Poor boy! poor boy!" "Then you don't think him altogether a bad boy ?" appealed Mrs.Bruce, pitifully.