If she has not come up to her own standard, she works on, not always with good temper, but perseveringly, and entirely, unheeding of commendation till she has satisfied herself, only thinking it stupid not to see the faults.

It is this independence of praise that I want to see in her brother and sister.

They justly earn it, and are rightly pleased with it; but I cannot feel sure whether they do not depend on it too much.

Norman lives, like all school-boys, a life of emulation, and has never met with anything but success.

I do believe Dr.Hoxton and Mr.Wilmot are as proud of him as we are; and he has never shown any tendency to conceit, but I am afraid he has the love of being foremost, and pride in his superiority, caring for what he is, compared with others, rather than what he is himself." "I know," said Norman; "I have done so, but that's over.