A Struggle for a Ring — page 95: what you’re looking at

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THE PARTING. QI that he traveled brought him a deeper sense of happiness and security. He was received with open arms at stately Roseneath. Lord Waldrove had peculiar ideas of his own; one was that it was not wise to be too severe with young men; he fancied that treating them with kindly indulgence won their confidence ; so when his son returned, after a long absence of some weeks, he merely said to him: | ‘You have been to Paris, then, my boy?” ‘¢ Ves,” was the reply; ‘‘and from Paris to Switzerland. Iam igh glad to be at home again; there is no place like home.” The earl was Belighted to love home was a virtue in his eyes*-one that covered many faults. ‘Your mother seemed to think it strange that you did not come straight back from the doctor’s; but I told her, after a long spell of reading, you would naturally require a little holiday.” His conscience reproached him; a keen, sharp pain almost stabbed him as he thought how he had deceived this indulgent, kindly father; his lips quivered with pain. Then he said to himself it was all for honor, for honor’s sake; he had no cause for regret; before now, kings had given their crowns, men had poured out their lives like water for honor’s sake; he might easily bear the pain of having deceived those who trusted him most and loved him best. Roseneath has been for long years one of the most beautiful and celebrated mansions in England; there is no book descriptive of English life in which a wgnetie of Roseneath does not find a place. It stands on the brow — of a hill, and isssaid to look over three counties. The abbey itself existed before the reign of Henry the Eighth, (E(0) mn G 900