Accordingly, so soon as the latter had left the house, she took food to Andrew, who still remained in his room, at the same time that she expressed to him her earnest wish that he would meet the family at the tea-table in the evening.
"I don't want to meet father," he replied to this.

"He will only frown upon me." "He is, of course, very much fretted at this occurrence," said the mother.

"And you cannot much wonder at it, Andrew." "He is more to blame than I am," was answered in an indignant tone.
"Don't speak of your father in that way, my son," said the mother, a gentle reproof in her voice.
"I speak as I feel, mother.

Is it not so ?" An argument on this subject Mrs.Howland would not hold with her boy, and she therefore changed it; but she did not cease her appeals to both his reason and his feelings, until he yielded to her wishes.
At supper time he joined the family at table--it was his first meeting with his father since morning.

Oh, what an intense desire did he feel for a kind reception from his stern parent! It seemed to him that such a reception would soften everything harsh and rebellious, and cause him to throw himself at his feet, and make the humblest confessions of error, and the most truthful promise of future well doing.