Henrietta had been taught by the conduct of both father and mother that every vice might be forgiven in a man and in a son, though every virtue was expected from a woman, and especially from a daughter.

The lesson had come to her so early in life that she had learned it without the feeling of any grievance.

She lamented her brother's evil conduct as it affected him, but she pardoned it altogether as it affected herself.

That all her interests in life should be made subservient to him was natural to her; and when she found that her little comforts were discontinued, and her moderate expenses curtailed, because he, having eaten up all that was his own, was now eating up also all that was his mother's, she never complained.

Henrietta had been taught to think that men in that rank of life in which she had been born always did eat up everything.
The mother's feeling was less noble .-- or perhaps, it might better be said, more open to censure.