It's like wishing chickens back in the shell after they're hatched--there ain't a particle of use in it.
If you ask me what I think--then, I'd say that Fanny would be just exactly what she is if you'd raised her down yonder in Virginia.

Her father's in her as well as you, and it seems to me that she grows more like him every day that she lives.

Now, Archibald is your child, anybody can tell that at a glance.

It's queer, ain't it how the boys almost always seem to take after the mother ?" "But Charley has a splendid daughter.

Think of his Margaret." "Of course, there ain't any rule that works out every time; but you know, I'll always take up for Mr.Charley if it's with the last breath I draw.