Two or three years devoted to the duties of a clerk, with the end of aiding in the support of his mother and sisters, will do more to give a right direction to Henry's character--more to make success in after life certain--than any thing else possible now to be done.

The office in which I can get him the situation I speak of adjoins the one to which I am attached, and I will, therefore, have him mostly under my own eye.

In this new school, the ardency of his young feelings will be duly chastened, and his thoughts turned more into elements of usefulness.

In a word, sister, it will give him self-dependence, and, in the end, make a man of him." The force of all this, and more by this suggested, was not only seen, but felt, by Mrs.Darlington; and when she found her son ready to accept the offer made to him, she withdrew all opposition.
Steps preliminary to the contemplated change were immediately taken.
First of all, Edith waited upon a number of their old friends, who had young children, and informed them that she was, in connection with her sister, about opening a school.

Some were surprised, some pleased, and some indifferent at the announcement; but a goodly number expressed pleasure at the opportunity it afforded them of placing their younger children under the care of teachers in whose ability and character they had so much confidence.