"He was a very fine boy, but very different from Roderick.
Roderick is a little strange; he has never been an easy boy.

Sometimes I feel like the goose--was n't it a goose, dear ?" and startled by the audacity of her comparison she appealed to Miss Garland--"the goose, or the hen, who hatched a swan's egg.

I have never been able to give him what he needs.

I have always thought that in more--in more brilliant circumstances he might find his place and be happy.

But at the same time I was afraid of the world for him; it was so large and dangerous and dreadful.