"Tea and sugar and white bread are now beyond our reach, and we must be content with a simpler fare." Mrs.Temple, on looking at their children, could scarcely refrain from tears; but she knew her husband's patience and resignation, and felt that it was her duty to submit with humility to the dispensation of God.
"You and I, my dear Charles, could bear up under anything--but these poor things, how will they do ?" "That reflection is only natural, my dear Maria; but it is spoken, dearest, only like a parent, who probably loves too much and with an excess of tenderness.

Just reflect, darling, upon the hundreds of thousands of children in our native land, who live healthily and happily without ever having tasted either tea or loaf-bread at all; and think, besides, dearest, that there are, in the higher circles, a great number of persons whose children are absolutely denied these comforts, by advice of their physicians.

Our natural wants, my dear Maria, are but simple, and easily satisfied; it is wealth and luxury only that corrupt and vitiate them.

In this case, then, dearest, the Christian must speak, and act, and feel as well as the parent.

You understand me now, love, and that is sufficient.