I do not believe that any amount of creature comforts or learned conversations would tempt him away from his boy.

I think their affection for each other is one of the most touching things I know." "Indeed it is, Betty," and Dinah looked at her sister rather wistfully; but Elizabeth was too much engrossed with her subject to notice her.
"David's attachment to his father is quite beautiful," she went on; "but I cannot help wondering over it sometimes.

He seems as proud of that shabby, mild-spoken little man as though he were a bishop in lawn sleeves, and not a broken-down, hard-working curate-in-charge, who preaches dull, dry little sermons." "But his life is his best sermon, Betty!" "Ah, you are right there," and Elizabeth's beaming look was good to see.

"David sometimes tells me that his father's patience with Theo is almost angelic.

'I don't know how he bears it,' he said once.