in the city and now we find him an honoured barrister, with
sufficient practice to meet the expenses of the pretty residence to
which he had removed some months ago and to which we referred in the
previous chapter.

We now see the reason which prompted Evelyn Verne in associating the
young lawyer with "hayseed'" It is only shallow sordid natures as
hers can indulge in such meanness, but thank heaven the venom has
only a momentary sting, a resting place in proportion to the
superficial source whence it springs.

In respect to other members of the Verne family it must be said that
Phillip Lawson had received much kindness and hospitality within the
walls of their princely residence, and if the spoiled beauty
indulged in spiteful taunts it was because she saw in the young man
that ability and soundness of principle which placed her set of
worldings at painful disadvantage.

Montague Arnold with his waxed moustache, Adonis-like form and
studied hauteur, minus the brains, amiability and that true
politeness which constitutes the real gentleman cut a sorry figure
when contrasted with Phillip Lawson.

Mrs. Verne was in every sense a votaress to the world's caprice, yet
she was not devoid of insight. She could see the noble traits of
character in Phillip Lawson; but she must bow to the mandates of
fashionable folly.

Mr. Verne, deeply absorbed in stocks and exchanges, seldom took
respite in the gaieties of the drawing-room; but in his business