I can allow for the fears of the child, but not of the man.

As he became rational, he ought to have roused himself and shaken off all that was unworthy in their authority.

He ought to have opposed the first attempt on their side to make him slight his father.

Had he begun as he ought, there would have been no difficulty now." "We shall never agree about him," cried Emma; "but that is nothing extraordinary.

I have not the least idea of his being a weak young man: I feel sure that he is not.