Has she not been tenderly brought up by two old men who are full of honor, and truth, and all the simple virtues?
Does she not look, move, and speak like the most gracious lady in the land ?" "Like a goddess," Arnold confessed.

"As for the ways and talk of society, what are these worth?
and cannot they be acquired?
And what are her manners save those of the most perfect refinement and purity ?" Thus far Conscience.

Then Arnold, or Arnold's secret _advocatus diaboli_, began upon another and quite different line.

"She must have schemed at the outset to get me into her net; she is a siren; she assumes the disguise of innocence and ignorance the better to beguile and to deceive.

She has gone home to-day elated because she thinks she has landed a gentleman." Conscience said nothing; there are some things to which Conscience has no reply in words to offer; yet Conscience pointed to the portrait of the girl, and bade the most unworthy of all lovers look upon even his own poor and meager representation of her eyes and face, and ask whether such blasphemies could ever be forgiven.
After a self abasement, which for shame's sake we must pass over, the young man felt happier.
Henry the Second felt much the same satisfaction the morning after his scourging at the hands of the monks, who were as muscular as they were vindictive..