For Harry had not taken the five hundred pounds with the creditable contrite humiliation of the repenting prodigal.

It was even yet doubtful whether he would respond to his parents' urgent request to spend Christmas at Seat-Sandal.

And when there is one rankling wrong, which we do not like to speak of, it is so natural to relieve the heart by talking a great deal about those wrongs which we are less inclined to disguise and deny.
In the great hall a sudden thought struck the squire; and he stood still, and looked in Charlotte's face.

"You are sure that you want to go, my dear?
Won't you be missed?
Eh?
What ?" She clasped his hand tighter, and shook her head very positively.

"They don't want me, father.