be generous, passionately fond as he was of justice, yet he did not know how to be just himself.  He could not see that he in truth had been to no extent ill-used.  And ever and again, as he thought of the great prayer as to the forgiveness of trespasses, he could not refrain from asking himself whether it could really be intended that he should forgive such trespass as that committed against him by Paul Montague!  Nevertheless, when he rose from the wall he had resolved that Hetta should be pardoned entirely, and that Paul Montague should be treated as though he were pardoned.  As for himself,—­the chances of the world had been unkind to him, and he would submit to them!

Nevertheless he wrote no answer to Hetta’s letter.  Perhaps he felt, with some undefined but...