Their intellect, their attainments, at once filled him with pride and made him humble in their presence.

But for his reluctance to impose restraints upon their mode of life, he might have avoided this present catastrophe; he had cried "Wolf!" indeed, in his mild way, but took no energetic measures when he found his cry disregarded--all the worse for him now that he could postpone the evil day no longer.
"You are the best judge of your own affairs, Madeline," he replied despondently.

"I'm very sorry, my girl." "All I can say is," exclaimed Mrs.Denyer, as if with dignified reticence, "that I think we should have had longer warning of this!" "My dear, I have warned you repeatedly for nearly a year." "I mean _serious_ warning.

Who was to imagine that things would come to such a pass as this ?" "You never told us there was danger of absolute beggary, papa," remarked Barbara, in a tone not unlike her mother's.
"I ought to have spoken more plainly," was her father's meek answer.
"You are quite right, Barbara.

I feel that I am to blame." "I don't think you are at all," said Madeline, with decision.