Not more cheerfully on his part than on theirs the necessary privations were met, the necessary penalty submitted to.

The son should stand on better ground than the father, though the father were himself the stepping-stone that he might reach it.
It had nothing to do with Winthrop, all this.

Nothing was said of him.

To send one son to College was already a great stretch of effort, and of possibility; to send _two_ was far beyond both.

Nobody thought of it.