He tried to
rebuke himself the next moment, it is true, for having harboured a moment's
satisfaction in the wrong-doing of another: it was unbefitting the pastor
of a Christian flock! But the thought came and came again, and he took no
continuous trouble to cast it out. When he went home, he put a question or
two to his housekeeper about the little one, but she only smiled paukily,
and gave him no answer.
After his two-o'clock dinner, he thought it would be Christian-like to
forgive his parents: he would therefore call at Stonecross--which would
tend to wipe out any undesirable offence on the minds of his parents, and
also to prevent any gossip that might injure him in his sacred profession!
He had not been to see them for a long time; his visits to them gave him
no satisfaction; but he never dreamed of attributing that to his own want
of cordiality. He judged it well, however, to avoid any appearance of evil,
and therefore thought it might be his duty to pay them in future a hurried
call about once a month.
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