HARRY JOSCELYN.
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VOL. II.
HARRY JOSCELYN.
BY
MRS. OLIPHANT
AUTHOR OF
“The Chronicles of Carlingford,”
&c., &c.
IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL. II.
LONDON:
HURST AND BLACKETT, PUBLISHERS,
13, GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET.
1881.
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HARRY JOSCELYN.
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CHAPTER I.
HARRY’S RESOLUTION.
THERE is nothing that grows and strengthens with thinking of it like thesense of personal injury. Harry Joscelyn had been very angry when heleft home; but he was not half so angry at that moment as when he lookedout of the window of the railway carriage, as the train swept throughthe valley, and saw in the distance the village roofs, over which, hadthere been light enough, and had his eyes served him so far, he mighthave seen the White House seated, firm and defiant, upon the Fellside.And every mile that he travelled his wrath and indignation grew. When hereached Liverpool he had formed his purpose beyond the reach of[Pg 2]argument, or anything that reason could say; and reason said very littlein the general excitement of his being. He had been turned out of hishome, he had been refused the money by which he thought he could havemade his fortune. He felt himself cast off by everybody belonging tohim. His mother had permitted that final outrage, he thought; for surelyshe could have found means of help if she had chosen to exert herself.His Uncle Henry had bought himself off, and got rid of a troublesomeapplicant by the gift of that twenty pounds. They were all against him.He thought of it and thought of it till they seemed to be all hisenemies, and at last he came to believe that they were glad to get quitof him, to be done with him. This was the aspect under which hecontemplated his relations with his family when he got to Liverpool; andthe effect upon him was that of a settled disgust with all the ordinaryhabits of his life, and its fashion altogether. When he thought ofreturning to the office, to his former routine as clerk, the idea madehim sick. It seemed to him that he could do anything, or go anywhere,rather than this. But though the impulse of abandoning all he had[Pg 3] beenor done hitherto was instantaneous, he could not qu