Tom was studying medicine and trying to like it.
Jack was in business with his father, bent on getting rich.

Dolly was in college with Stuffy and Ned reading law.

Poor little Dick was dead, so was Billy; and no one could mourn for them, since life would never be happy, afflicted as they were in mind and body.
Rob and Teddy were called the 'Lion and the Lamb'; for the latter was as rampant as the king of beasts, and the former as gentle as any sheep that ever baaed.

Mrs Jo called him 'my daughter', and found him the most dutiful of children, with plenty of manliness underlying the quiet manners and tender nature.

But in Ted she seemed to see all the faults, whims, aspirations, and fun of her own youth in a new shape.