I keep the fellow harder at work than if he were at school, and some day he will be a barrister.

When I give him money to go to the theatre, he is as happy as a king and kisses me.
Oh, I keep a tight hand on him, and he renders me an account of all he spends.

You are too good to your children, Madame Bridau; if your son wants to go through hardships and privations, let him; they'll make a man of him." "As for my boy," said Du Bruel, a former chief of a division, who had just retired on a pension, "he is only sixteen; his mother dotes on him; but I shouldn't listen to his choosing a profession at his age,--a mere fancy, a notion that may pass off.

In my opinion, boys should be guided and controlled." "Ah, monsieur! you are rich, you are a man, and you have but one son," said Agathe.
"Faith!" said Claparon, "children do tyrannize over us--over our hearts, I mean.

Mine makes me furious; he has nearly ruined me, and now I won't have anything to do with him--it's a sort of independence.