CHAPTER XI.
JANE RECEIVES A LESSON "There are times in life when circumstances decide for us; it is then the part of wisdom to accept and make the best of what they offer." Of course Harry would have felt it intolerable to come home just like his neighbors.

So he returned to the Hatton district as if he had condescended to accept some pressing invitation to do so.

It was, however, almost the last exhibition of his overweening youthful egotism.
His mother's best carriage was at the station for Mrs.Henry Hatton and family; his mother's gigs and wagons there for his servants and baggage.
Two or three of the village societies to which he had belonged or did yet belong crowded the railway platform.

They cheered him when he alighted, and sent him homeward to the music of, There may be fairer lands beyond the sea, But it's Home! It's Home in the North Country! Harry's mother was delighted.

This public approbation justified her own rather extravagant welcome, and when John's face showed a shadow of disapproval, she was not pleased.
"It is too much especially at this time, mother.