But you will always be in danger of this unless you learn to put a curb on your hasty temper.

The same feelings which urge you into a quarrel as a boy, will hurry you into the duel as a man.

It is a false spirit of honor and manliness that makes you so ready to resent every little insult.

In the life of the only perfect Man that ever lived, our great Example and Master, we do not see this impatience of contradiction: 'When He was reviled, He reviled not again;' and if He, the Lord of all, could condescend to endure such contradiction of sinners against Himself, shall it be too much for us to bear a little with the contradiction of our fellow-creatures?
My boy, if we do not strive to bear a little of the burden and heat of the day, we are not worthy to bear the noble name of Christians." "I am very sorry, sir," said Reginald, quite softened by the earnest manner of his master; "I am very sorry I have been so hasty and wrong.
I dare not make any promises for the future, for I know I cannot certainly keep them, but, with God's help, I hope to remember what you have so kindly said to me." "With His help we may do all things," said Dr.Wilkinson; "you may by this help overcome the stumbling-stone of your violent passions, which otherwise may become an effectual barrier in the way of your attaining the prize of eternal life; and remember that 'he that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit, than he that taketh a city.'" There was a minute's silence, which Reginald broke by asking if he might attend on Frank until he was well.
"Can I hope that you will be gentle," said the doctor; "that you will remember he is in invalid--one of your making, Mortimer; and that if he is impatient and fretful, you are the cause ?" "I will try, sir, to make amends to him," said Reginald, looking down; "I hope I may be able to be patient." "I will give orders that you may go to him," said the doctor; and after a pause, he added, "another offence of this kind I shall visit with the heaviest displeasure.

I am in hopes that the anxiety you have undergone, and the present state of your cousin, may be a lesson to you; but if I find this ineffectual, I shall cease to consider you a reasonable creature, and shall treat you accordingly." Dr.Wilkinson then rose and left the room.