I do not know that I am good at tracing likenesses.

He certainly is like you.' 'So much more like his father!' said Hester.
After that there was a pause, and then the mother commenced her task in her most serious voice.

'Hester, my child, you can understand that a duty may become so imperious that it must be performed.' 'Yes,' said Hester, pressing her lips close together 'I can understand that.' There might be a duty very necessary for her to perform, though in the performance of it she should be driven to quarrel absolutely with her own mother.
'So it is with me.

Whom do you think I love best in all the world ?' 'Papa.' 'I do love your father dearly, and I endeavour, by God's grace, to do my duty by him, though, I fear, it is done imperfectly.

But, my child, our hearts, I think, yearn more to those who are younger than ourselves than to our elders.