He impressed it upon them as their special sacred duty, in a time of wicked enmity to religion, to cherish the faith and the whole faith.

He wished his wife and daughters to live on here after his death, that they might be less in danger spiritually than in the big world, and that they might have more opportunity of living the old-fashioned Christian life.

There was also some mystical idea, I think, of making up through his children for the godless lives of their forefathers.

He used to reproach himself for having in his prosperous days neglected his family, some of whom he might have helped to raise.' 'Well, but,' said Robert, 'all very well for Miss Leyburn, but I don't see the father in the two younger girls.' 'Ah, there is Catherine's difficulty,' said the vicar, shrugging his shoulders.

'Poor thing! How well I remember her after her father's death! She came down to see me in the dinning-room about some arrangement for the funeral.