I shall try to shield you from harm, as I always have done; but when I am gone--" "O, don't say that!" exclaimed Floracita, with a quick, nervous movement.
And Rosabella looked at him with swimming eyes, as she repeated, "Don't say that, _Papasito querido_!" He laid a hand on the head of each.

His heart was very full.

With solemn tenderness he tried to warn them of the perils of life.

But there was much that he was obliged to refrain from saying, from reverence for their inexperienced purity.

And had he attempted to describe the manners of a corrupt world, they could have had no realizing sense of his meaning; for it is impossible for youth to comprehend the dangers of the road it is to travel.
The long talk at last subsided into serious silence.