And no doubt it is easy thus to circumvent a child with catchwords, but it may be questioned how far it is effectual.

An instinct in his breast detects the quibble, and a voice condemns it.

He will instantly submit, privately hold the same opinion.

For even in this simple and antique relation of the mother and the child, hypocrisies are multiplied.
When the Court rose that year and the family returned to Hermiston, it was a common remark in all the country that the lady was sore failed.
She seemed to loose and seize again her touch with life, now sitting inert in a sort of durable bewilderment, anon waking to feverish and weak activity.

She dawdled about the lasses at their work, looking stupidly on; she fell to rummaging in old cabinets and presses, and desisted when half through; she would begin remarks with an air of animation and drop them without a struggle.