CHAPTER XVII.
THE WRONG PEW.
August's own good sense told him that the advice of Jonas was not good.
But he had made many mistakes of late, and was just now inclined to take anybody's judgment in place of his own.

All that was proud and gentlemanly in him rebelled at the thought of creeping into another man's house in the night.

Modesty is doubtless a virtue, but it is a virtue responsible for many offenses.

Had August not felt so distrustful of his own wisdom, nothing could have persuaded him to make his love for Julia Anderson seem criminal by an action so wanting in dignity.

But back of Jonas's judgment was that of Andrew, whose weakness was Quixotism.