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And you are just come from hearing Arden's examination? How went it?

It was scarcely closed when I came away,—as I thought you would be waiting for me; but I heard all the material part.

And how did he behave himself?

With greater caution and presence of mind than I should have supposed a character like his, depressed with a sense of disgrace, was capable of.

Indeed! He kept possession of himself, then?

Wonderfully: he has not betrayed himself in one of his answers, though he was questioned very shrewdly.