You and I belong to each other as parent and child: you have no right to run away from my care and authority, and I have none to let you do so.

In fact, I feel compelled to punish the attempt quite severely, lest there should be a repetition of it." "Oh, don't, papa!" she sobbed.

"I'll never do it again." "It was an act of daring, wilful disobedience," he said, "and I must punish you for it.

Also, for the fury of passion indulged in this morning.

Read this, and this, aloud," he added, pointing to the open page; and she obeyed, reading faltering, sobbingly,-- "'Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.' ...