And the less he has to say to any child of mine, the better, both for him and her, I say.

I know that the age is turned upside down.

But I'll not have that sort of thing at my table." When a kind and indulgent father breaks forth thus, the result is consternation, followed by anxiety about his health.

Faith glanced at Dolly, who was looking quite bewildered, and the two girls withdrew without a word.

Johnny was already gone to visit Captain Stubbard, with whose eldest daughter Maggie and the cannons of the battery he was by this time desperately in love; and poor Frank was left to have it out with the angry father.
"I very seldom speak harshly, my boy," said the Admiral, drawing near his son gradually, for his wrath (like good vegetables) was very short of staple; "and when I do so you may feel quite certain that there is sound reason at the bottom of it"-- here he looked as if his depth was unfathomable.