And the bond cannot be very close between father and child, when the father has forsaken his childhood.

The bond between any two is the one in the other; it is the father in the child, and the child in the father, that reach to each other eternal hands.

It troubled Ginevra greatly that, when she asked herself whether she loved her father better than anybody else, as she believed she ought, she became immediately doubtful whether she loved him at all.
She was eating porridge and milk: with spoon arrested in mid-passage, she stopped suddenly, and said:-- "Papa, what's a broonie ?" "I have told you, Jenny, that you are never to talk broad Scotch in my presence," returned her father.

"I would lay severer commands upon you, were it not that I fear tempting you to disobey me, but I will have no vulgarity in the dining-room." His words came out slowly, and sounded as if each was a bullet wrapped round with cotton wool to make it fit the barrel.

Ginevra looked perplexed for a moment.
"Should I say brownie, papa ?" she asked.
"How can I tell you what you should call a creature that has no existence ?" rejoined her father.
"If it be a creature, papa, it must have a name!" retorted the little logician, with great solemnity.
Mr.Galbraith was not pleased, for although the logic was good, it was against him.
"What foolish person has been insinuating such contemptible superstition into your silly head ?" he asked.