this wild assault, but he managed to do so without
inflicting any hurt; and when Julian paused, Lillyston noticed with a
sense of relief that the chapel-bell had ceased to ring.

"I WILL go," said Julian, madly renewing the struggle. But with all his
efforts he could not stir Lillyston from the door, and only succeeded in
tearing his surplice from the neck downwards. He paused, and, baffled
of his intention, glared at his opponent.

"The clock has now struck," said Lillyston calmly, "and the doors will
be shut. You are too late to get in." Julian stamped impatiently on
the floor, and prepared to close with Lillyston again, but now Lillyston
stepped from the door, and as he slowly went out, turned round and
said--

"Julian, do you call this being brave or strong? Can you let one
disappointment unman you so utterly?"

"Be brave, and honest, and pure, and God will be with you." The words
flashed into light from the folded pages of Julian's memory, and with
them the dim image of a dead face, and the dying echo of a father's
voice.

CHAPTER FOURTEEN.

MR CARDEN.

"Pol pudere quam pigere proestat totidem literis."
Plautus _Trinum_, Two, 2.

Who has not felt, who does not know, that one sin yielded to, that one
passion uncontrolled, too often brings with it a train of other sins,
and betrays the drawbridge of the citadel to a thousand enemies beside?

It had been so with Julian Home, and in proportion to the true strength
and beauty of his character, was the poignancy of his bitterness when he
awoke the next morning, and calmly reviewed the few last excited,
prayerless, and unworthy days. Surely after so many proofs of weakness,
surely after emotions and acts so violently inadequate to the
circumstances which had caused them, his best friends must despise him
as utterly as he despised himself.

He arose that morning strong out of weakness. He determined that he
would be checked no longer by unavailing regrets, and that his
repentance should be open and manly, as his prostration had been
conspicuous. Fortified by the humiliating experience of his own want of
strength he sought for help in resolute determination and earnest
prayer. After breakfast, his first step was to call on Owen, and
congratulate him with hearty and unaffected simplicity on his success--a
success which Owen generously acknowledged to be due solely to Julian's
misfortune. It was much more difficult to call on Hazlet, but this,