The disruption is so great as to be awful.

But when your father has asked what better step he could take, I have been unable to advise him.' It was as though the old man were telling the young one that he was too bad for hope, and that, therefore, he must be consigned for ever to perdition.
Caldigate, conscious of the mistake which the banker was making, full of hope as to himself, intending to acknowledge the follies of which he had been guilty, and, at the same time, not to promise,--for he would not condescend so far,--but to profess that they were things of the past, and impatient of the judgment expressed against him, endeavoured to stop the old man in his severity, so that the tone in which the business was being done might be altered.

But when he found that he could not do this without offence, he leaned back in his chair, and heard the indictment to the end.

'Now, Mr.Bolton,' he said, when at length his time came, 'you shall hear my view of the matter.' And Mr.Bolton did hear him, listening very patiently.

Caldigate first asserted, that in coming there, to Puritan Grange, his object had been to learn what were the terms proposed,--as to which he was now willing to give his assent.