Will you accept this charge? I do not mind telling you
that it is your duty. These looms and spindles any clever spinner can
direct right, but it takes a soul to save a soul. You know that."
"I will be in London tonight, Mr. Lugur. You are a friend worth having.
I thank you."
"Good-bye! I leave for Cardiff at once. I leave Harry with God and
you--and I would not be hard with Harry."
"I shall not. I love Harry."
"You cannot help loving him. He is doing wrong, but you cannot stop
loving him, and you know it was _while as yet we were sinners_, God
loved and saved us. Good-bye, sir!"
The door closed and John turned the key and sat down for a few minutes
to consider his position. This sorrow on the top of his disagreement
with Jane and his anxiety about the threatened war in America called
forth all his latent strength. He told himself that he must now put
personal feelings aside and give his attention first of all to Harry's
case, it being evidently the most urgent of the duties before him. Jane
if left for a few days would no doubt be more reasonable.
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