"And I believed in you.

I CAN'T stand it when you wrangle." "But they're so hateful!" cried Miriam, "and--and LOW." "Yes, dear.

But how often have I asked you not to answer Edgar back?
Can't you let him say what he likes ?" "But why should he say what he likes ?" "Aren't you strong enough to bear it, Miriam, if even for my sake?
Are you so weak that you must wrangle with them ?" Mrs.Leivers stuck unflinchingly to this doctrine of "the other cheek".
She could not instil it at all into the boys.

With the girls she succeeded better, and Miriam was the child of her heart.

The boys loathed the other cheek when it was presented to them.