Her thoughts were still more confused, and her mind in still greater perplexity.

Ah, if she only knew what was right! "I will not tell your father this time," she at length said, "but don't ask me, if you are again disobedient." But of what avail was the child's promises.

He had strong feelings, a strong will, and, though so very young, much endurance.

A law, at variance almost with a law of his nature, had been arbitrarily enacted, and he could not obey it.

As well might his father have shut him up, hungry, in a room filled with tempting food, and commanded him not to touch or taste it.