"I have gone too long along a straight furrow to change now; but I am not ill pleased that my son should have a wider scope.

I trust and believe that he will drive his furrow as straight as we have done, although it may not be exactly in the same line." But neither Zephaniah nor old Mrs.Davenant knew that their respective grandsons had made friends, although both the boys' fathers knew, and approved of it, although for somewhat different reasons.
"The Whitefoot boy," Mr.Davenant had said to his wife, "is, I fancy from what I have seen of him, of a different type to his father and grandfather.

I met him the other day when I was out, and he spoke as naturally and outspokenly as Walter himself.

He seems to have got rid of the Puritanical twang altogether.

At any rate, he will do Walter no harm; and, indeed, I should say that there was a solid good sense about him, which will do Master Walter, who is somewhat disposed to be a madcap, much good.