I can trust better to your tenderness of others' feelings than to my own heart.

I felt strongly, Esther, and was fearful that it might be too harsh or reproachful.

I was anxious lest my feelings should be too strikingly displayed; yet it was better to be explicit--don't you think so ?" "Undoubtedly," answered Esther; and handing back the letter, she took up baby, and seated herself in the rocking-chair.
Now baby had a prejudice against caps, inveterate and unconquerable; and grandmamma, nurse, and Esther were compelled to bear the brunt of her antipathies.

We have before said that Esther's cap _looked_ as though it felt itself in an inappropriate position--that it had got on the head of the wrong individual--and baby, no doubt in deference to the cap's feelings, tore it off, and threw it in the half-open piano, from whence it was extricated with great detriment to the delicate lace.
Emily took a seat near the window, and drawing her work-table towards her, raised the lid.

This presenting another opening for baby, she slid down from her mother's lap, and hastened towards her.