Besides, he remembered to have heard his father say that children did not bear malice: that was a growth of older minds.

It was strange for Livingstone to find himself recurring to his father for knowledge of human nature--his father whom he had always considered the most ignorant of men as to knowledge of the world.
He sprang to his feet and looked at his watch.

Perhaps, it was not yet too late to see the little girl to-night if he hurried?
Clark lived not very far off, in a little side street, and they would sit up late Christmas Eve.
As he turned to the mirror it was with trepidation, his last glance at it had been so dreadful; but he was relieved to find a pleasanter expression on his face.

He almost saw a slight resemblance to his father.
The next moment he hurried from the room; stole down the stair; slipped on his overcoat, and hastily let himself out of the door..