That is not at all the character he bears." "No," the sergeant said, "I hear him spoken well of; but I have seen, in other cases, men, who have had the name of being pleasant and generous, were yet tyrants and brutes in their own family.

I judge him as I found him--a hard hearted, tyrannical, vindictive father.

I think I had better not see him myself.

We have never met.

I have never set eyes on him save here in church; but he regarded me as responsible for the folly of his son.