Fond as she was of him and proud of his brilliant promise, she did not know what to make of him, so wayward was he and inconsiderately selfish.

"I am in a wretched state of health," the poor lady explained, "and quiet is important to my recovery and quite essential to my comfort, yet he disturbs it for what he calls 'funny tormenting,' without the slightest feeling, twenty times a day.

At one time he kept one of his brothers screaming, from a sort of teasing play, for near an hour under my window.

At another he acted a wolf to his baby brother, whom he had promised never to frighten again."* -- * Guiney's Hurrell Froude, p.

8.
-- Anthony was the baby brother, and though this form of teasing was soon given up, the temper which dictated it remained.