I have heard him take a text out of the "Imitation," and lecture Rose when she was quite a baby for pestering any stray person she could get hold of to give her music lessons.

"Woe to them"-- yes, that was it--"that inquire many curious things of men, and care little about the way of serving Me." However, he wasn't consistent.

Nobody is.

It was actually he that brought Rose her first violin from London in a green baize bag.

Mrs.
Leyburn took me in one night to see her asleep with it on her pillow, and all her pretty curls lying over the strings.