How great would be her danger! Fourfold would be her temptation, and tenfold her exposure." "We will keep her," said Claire, firmly, as his wife ceased speaking.
"She must not be so exposed.

God has given her to us; she is our child, for we love her as tenderly as if she were of our own blood.
When her mother was taken, God transferred the love she had borne her child into your bosom, and from that time you became her mother.

No, Edith, we must not let her go forth, in her tender innocence.

We love her as our own; let us share with her the best we have; let her become more really our own than she has yet been." "If," said Edith, after some moments, "we lose the regular income from Mr.Jasper, Fanny will be deprived of most important advantages.

Just now we are about adding materially to the cost of her education." "I know," replied Edward.