"It was from her mother that she received her teaching.

I know she was not happy with her husband, who was as gloomy and fanatical as is my grandfather, and she ever looked back to the happy days of her girlhood in England.

I think she did for my mother just what my mother has done for me, only the difference is that she never had sufficient influence with her husband to enable her to carry out her views for her daughter, while my mother--" "Has managed to have her own way," Walter laughed.
"I suppose so, and that in spite of my grandfather.

Certainly I owe everything to her, for I am sure, if it hadn't been for her, my father would never have ventured to oppose the old man, even so far as to let me know you.

It makes one sad to think, Walter, that religion should sometimes make those who think most of it tyrants in their families.