CHAPTER XXII.
REMORSE.
In a work of this kind not only the external incidents should be noticed, but also what may be called the mental events.

We have seen a calamity produce a great revulsion in the feelings of Colonel Clifford; but as for Robert Bartley his very character was shaken to the foundation by his crime and its terrible consequences.

He was now like a man who had glided down a soft sunny slope, and was suddenly arrested at the brink of a fathomless precipice.

Bartley was cunning, selfish, avaricious, unscrupulous in reality, so long as he could appear respectable, but he was not violent, nor physically reckless, still less cruel.

A deed of blood shocked him as much as it would shock an honest man.