It was an error in judgment, perhaps--nothing more." "But, then, if you know nothing about love, and its soothing power, why meddle with it at all ?" "Grace," said Mr.Carden, sadly, but firmly, "we poor parents are all prepared for this.

After many years of love and tenderness bestowed on our offspring, the day is sure to come when the young thing we have reared with so much care and tenderness will meet a person of her own age, a STRANGER; and, in a month or two, all our love, our care, our anxiety, our hopes, will be nothing in the balance.

This wound is in store for us all.

We foresee it; we receive it; we groan under it; we forgive it.

We go patiently on, and still give our ungrateful children the benefit of our love and our experience.