"I should have thought that with you at the head of the school, the child might have been kept out of mischief; but there have you been going your own way, and leaving him to be ruined by the very worst set of boys!" Norman's colour rose with the extreme pain this unjust accusation caused him, and his voice, though low, was not without irritation, "I have tried.

I have not done as much as I ought, perhaps, but--" "No, I think not, indeed!" interrupted his father.

"Sending a boy there, brought up as he had been, without the least tendency to deceit--" Here no one could see Norman's burning cheeks, and brow bent downwards in the effort to keep back an indignant reply, without bursting out in exculpation; and Richard looked up, while the three sisters all at once began, "Oh, no, no, papa"-- and left Margaret to finish--"Poor little Tom had not always been quite sincere." "Indeed! and why was I left to send him to school without knowing it?
The place of all others to foster deceit." "It was my fault, papa," said Margaret.
"And mine," put in Richard; and she continued, "Ethel told us we were very wrong, and I wish we had followed her advice.

It was by far the best, but we were afraid of vexing you." "Every one seems to have been combined to hide what they ought not!" said Dr.May, though speaking to her much more softly than to Norman, to whom he turned angrily again.

"Pray, how came you not to identify this paper ?" "I did not know it," said Norman, speaking with difficulty.