'They will grow up, and I can only hold them by one little thread, which may snap at any time, as it has with Jack and Ned.
Dolly and George still like to come back, and I can say my word to them; and dear old Franz is too true ever to forget his own.

But the three who are soon going out into the world again I can't help worrying about.
Emil's good heart will keep him straight, I hope, and '"A sweet little cherub sits up aloft, To look out for the life of poor Jack."' Nat is to make his first flight, and he's weak in spite of your strengthening influence; and Dan is still untamed.

I fear it will take some hard lesson to do that.' 'He's a fine fellow, Jo, and I almost regret this farming project.

A little polish would make a gentleman of him, and who knows what he might become here among us,' answered Mr Laurie, leaning over Mrs Bhaer's chair, just as he used to do years ago when they had mischievous secrets together.
'It wouldn't be safe, Teddy.

Work and the free life he loves will make a good man of him, and that is better than any amount of polish, with the dangers an easy life in a city would bring him.