He may acquire just as good a one in practical life if he is thoroughly interested in what he is doing and has an ambition to excel.

I believe Winn to be both ambitious and persevering; but he is impulsive, easily influenced, and impatient of control.

He has no idea of that implicit obedience to orders that is at the foundation of success in civil life as well as in the army; and, above all, he is possessed of such an inordinate self-conceit that if it is not speedily curbed by one or more severe lessons, it may lead him into serious trouble." "Oh, John!" expostulated the mother.

"Do you realize that you are saying these horrid things about our own boy--our Winn ?" "Indeed I do, dear," answered the Major, smiling; "and it is because he is our boy, whom I love better than myself, that I am analyzing his character so carefully.

He has the making of a splendid fellow in him, together with certain traits that might easily prove his ruin." "Well," replied Mrs.Caspar, in a resigned tone, "perhaps it will do him good to go away and be alone with you for a while.