CHAPTER 9.
_"Teach me to feel for others' woes, To hide the fault I see; The mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me."_ Breakfast was just over on the morning following the soire at the vice chancellor's.

Christian sat with the two aunts, quietly sewing.
Ay, very quietly, even after last night.

She had taken counsel with her own heart, through many wakeful hours, and grown calm and still.
Neither her husband nor Miss Gascoigne had once named Sir Edwin.
Probably Aunt Henrietta did not know him, and in the crowded party Dr.Grey might not have chanced to recognize him.

Indeed, most likely the young man would take every means of avoiding recognition from the master of his own college, whence he had been ignominiously dismissed.

His appearance at St.Mary's Lodge was strange enough, and only to be accounted for by his having been invited by the vice chancellor's young wife, who knew him only as Sir Edwin Uniacke, the rich young baronet.
But, under shadow of these advantages, no doubt he could easily get into society again, even at Avonsbridge, and would soon be met every where.