The boys always attempt to rule their sisters, and if the latter do not submit, then comes discord and contention." "I have seen this, in hundreds of instances," replied Mrs.Talbot.
"It was fully illustrated in my own case.

I had two brothers, who undertook to exercise their love of domineering on me.

But they did not find a passive subject--no, not by any means.

I was never obedient to their will, for I had one of my own.

We made the house often a bedlam for our poor mother; but I never gave way--no, not for an instant, come what might.