The only safety lies in following out the plain duty.

The parent wants the child's help and care, the child is bound to give it; that is all it needs to know.

If it forms new ties, it belongs to them, not to the old ones; the old ones must come to be forgotten and put aside.' 'So you would make all life a sacrifice to the past ?' he cried, quivering under the blow she was dealing him.
'No, not all life,' she said, struggling hard to preserve her perfect calm of manner: he could not know that she was trembling from head to foot.

'There are many for whom it is easy and right to choose their own way; their happiness robs no one.

There are others on whom a charge has been laid from their childhood a charge perhaps--and her voice faltered at last--'impressed on them by dying lips, which must govern, possess their lives; which it would be baseness, treason, to betray.