It is true that there were no drunkards among them.

And why ?" "Because none of them got drunk, I should think," Henry ventured to suggest.
"That, of course, was one reason, my son, but the main reason was that they knew how to govern themselves." The evening flew away with music and with talk of a long ago made doubly dear by present happiness.

The hour was growing late.
Witherspoon and Henry sat in the library, smoking.

Ellen had gone to her room to draft a form for the invitation to Henry's reception, and Mrs.Witherspoon was on a midnight prowl throughout the house, and although knowing that everything was right, yet surprised to find it so.
"Now, my boy," said the merchant, "we will talk business.

Your mother, and particularly your sister, thought it well for me to make you an allowance, and while I don't object to the putting of money aside for you, yet I should rather have you feel the manliness which comes of drawing a salary for services rendered.