With all a child's deficiency of reasoning power, she had never considered how impossible it was that a selfish, vain, and impatient boy could become a meek, humble, and pious man, merely by adopting a profession in which such qualities are required.

But now, at sixteen, she was beginning to understand all this.

Not by any process of thought, but by something more like a correct feeling, she perceived that Edward would never be the true minister of Christ.

So, more glad and thankful than sorry, though sorrow mingled with her sentiments, she learned the decision that he was to be an attorney.
Frank Buxton all this time was growing up into a young man.

The hopes both of father and mother were bound up in him; and, according to the difference in their characters was the difference in their hopes.