Parental anxiety goes through so many trials and so various, and they all strike roots into the parent's heart.

Yet after twenty years of love and hope and fear comes a handsome young fellow, a charming highwayman to a parent's eye, and whisks her away after two months' courtship.

Then, oh, ye young, curb for a moment your blind egotism, and feel a little for the parents who have felt so much for you! You rather like William Hope, so let him help you to pity your own parents.

See his sad face as he looks at the love he is yet too unselfish to discourage.

To save that tender root, a sickly child, he transplanted it from his own garden, and still tended it with loving care for many a year.