I wish he was not your brother, that I might speak of him as I should like." "He has been doing what is very wrong," said Maggie.

"But you--none of you--know his good points--nor how he has been exposed to all sorts of bad influences, I am sure; and never had the advantage of a father's training and friendship, which are so inestimable to a son.

O, Minnie! when I remember how we two used to kneel down in the evenings at my father's knee, and say our prayers; and then listen in awe-struck silence to his earnest blessing, which grew more like a prayer for us as his life waned away, I would do anything for Edward rather than that wrestling agony of supplication should have been in vain.

I think of him as the little innocent boy, whose arm was round me as if to support me in the Awful Presence, whose true name of Love we had not learned.

Minnie! he has had no proper training--no training, I mean, to enable him to resist temptation--and he has been thrown into it without warning or advice.