She has not had the temptations to extravagant pleasure which have been yours; to save this sum you must have resigned much gratification.

You have acted thus excellently, in part, to regain the good opinion of your friends, and the kind wish of restoring perfect peace to your sister: in the first, you have fully succeeded; in the second, when your sister knows what has been the secret purpose of your life for three long years, her affections will amply repay you.

You are deserving of each other, my dear Edward; and this moment I do not scruple to say, I am proud to feel myself so nearly related to those who, young as they both are, have so nobly and perseveringly performed their duty both to God and man." Young Fortescue raised his uncle's hand, wrung it between both his own, and impetuously darted from the room.
"That boy would teach me never to despair again, my good friend," said Mr.Hamilton, addressing the worthy clergyman.

"When last he left me I had learned to hope and yet to fear, for I dreaded his exposure to his former temptations; and now--glad, indeed, am I to acknowledge myself vanquished, and to own you were ever in the right." Mr.Howard smiled.
"And now does my husband regret his having adopted my sister's orphans as his own ?" demanded Mrs.Hamilton, entwining her arm in her husband's, and looking caressingly in his face.
"No, my dearest wife; once, indeed, when I beheld you in fancy about to sink beneath the accumulation of misery and anxiety both Edward and Ellen's conduct occasioned, I did in secret murmur that the will of my heavenly Father had consigned to us the care of such misguided ones; I fear I looked on them as the disturbers of family peace and harmony, when it was the will of my God.

I felt indignant and provoked with them, when I should have bowed submissively to Him.