The senator exchanged a hasty glance with his wife, they were accustomed to under stand each other without speech, and Dorothea said: "He who feels that he is not what he ought to be is already on the high-road to amendment.
We let you keep the goats because you were always running after the flocks, and never can rest in the house.

You are up on the mountain before morning-prayer, and never come home till after supper is over, and no one takes any thought for the better part of you.

Half of your guilt recoils upon us, and we have no right to punish you.

You need not be so astonished; every one some times does wrong.

Petrus and I are human beings like you, neither more nor less; but we are Christians, and it is our duty to look after the souls which God has entrusted to our care, be they our children or our slaves.