If we choose aright, all will doubtless come out right.

To choose aright is, therefore, of the first importance; and to do this, we must not suffer distorting suggestions nor the appeals of a false pride to influence our minds in the least.
You are my oldest child, Edith; and, as such, I cannot but look upon you as, to some extent, jointly with me, the guardian of your younger brothers and sisters.

True, Miriam is of age, and Henry nearly so; but still you are the eldest--your mind is more matured, and in your judgment I have the most confidence.

Try and forget, Edith, all but the fact that, unless we make an exertion, one home for all cannot be retained.

Are you willing that we should be scattered like leaves in the autumn wind?
No! you would consider that one of the greatest calamities that could befall us--an evil to prevent which we should use every effort in our power.