"There are so many troubles worse than these failures, that it only shows how happy we are that we should take them so much to heart." "They are a very real trouble!" said Margaret.

"Don't smile, mamma.

Only remember how wretched his schooldays were, when papa could not see any difficulty in what to him was so hard, and how all papa's eagerness only stupified him the more." "They are a comfort not to have that over again! Yet," said the mother, "I often think there is more fear for Norman.

I dread his talent and success being snares." "There is no self-sufficiency about him," said Margaret.

"I hope not, and he is so transparent, that it would be laughed down at the first bud: but the universal good report, and certainty of success, and being so often put in comparison with Richard, is hardly safe.