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EUGENE ARAM.
CHAPTER VI.
the behaviour of the student.—a summer scene.—aram's conversation with walter, and subsequent colloquy with himself.
"The soft season, the firmament serene,
The loun illuminate air, and firth amene
The silver-scalit fishes on the grete
O'er-thwart clear streams sprinkillond for the heat," &c.
" Ilia subter
Cæcum vulnus habes; sed lato balteus auro
Prætegit." Persius.
Several days elapsed before the family of the manor-house encountered Aram again. The old woman came once or twice to present the inquiries of her master as to Miss Lester's accident; but Aram himself did not appear. This want of interest certainly offended Madeline, although she still drew upon herself Walter's dis-
