"
"You don't think that would make any difference to Jenny?"
"It makes all the difference to her father; and Jenny will never be
a disobedient daughter."
"Oh! but it will--it must be cleared! I know it will! It is
faithless to think that injustice is not always set right!"
"Not always here," said Julius, sadly. "See, there's the Backsworth
race-ground, the great focus of the evil."
"Were racing debts thought to have any part in the disaster?"
"That I can't tell; but it was those races that brought George
Proudfoot under the Vivian influence; and in the absence of all of
us, poor Archie, when left to himself after his mother's death, had
become enough mixed up in their amusements to give a handle to those
who thought him unsteady."
"As if any one must be unsteady who goes to the races!" cried
Rosamond. "You were so liberal about balls, I did expect one little
good word for races; instead of which, you are declaring a poor
wretch who goes to them capable of embezzling two thousand pounds,
and I dare say Anne agrees with you!"
"Now, did I ever say so, Anne?"
"You looked at the course with pious horror, and said it justified
the suspicion!" persisted Rosamond.
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