I really think my boy wants to do right, but he is a heedless, thoughtless fellow, often going wrong from mere carelessness and forgetfulness.

But he must be taught to think and to remember." "I wish he could have his father's constant care and control," sighed Violet.
"I wish he could indeed!" responded the captain; "but principally because I fear he will prove a care and trouble to your grandfather and mother, who, I am inclined to think, are more capable than I of giving him proper training.

I shall go away feeling easier in regard to my children's welfare than I ever have before since they lost their mother." "I am very glad of that, Levis," Violet said, her eyes shining with pleasure, "and I do believe they will have a happy life at Ion." "It will certainly be their own fault if they do not," he replied.
* * * * * Rose Travilla was somewhat less amiable in disposition than her mother and older sisters, and had been much disgusted with Lulu's exhibition of temper that evening.
Talking with her mother afterward in her dressing-room, "Mamma," she said, "I wish you hadn't offered to let Lulu Raymond live with us at Ion.

I don't at all like the way she behaves, and I wish you and grandpa would tell her father to send her off to boarding-school." "That is an unkind wish, Rose," said her mother.

"Perhaps if you had had the same treatment Lulu has been subjected to since her mother's death, you might have shown as bad a temper as hers.