Her father was a judge, she has two brothers at the bar, and her elder son had made a very promising beginning in the same line.

She wishes the tradition to be perpetuated.

I 'm pretty sure the law won't make Roderick's fortune, and I 'm afraid it will, in the long run, spoil his temper." "What sort of a temper is it ?" "One to be trusted, on the whole.

It is quick, but it is generous.

I have known it to breathe flame and fury at ten o'clock in the evening, and soft, sweet music early on the morrow.