"Everybody has some one over them.
If you hadn't, you would never know right from wrong." "But he is unkind to you." "No, indeed," said Kate, with decision.

"He is really very kind to me.
He may appear a little stern at times, but I know that he means it for my own good, and I should be a very foolish girl if I resented it.
Besides, he is so pious and good that what may seem a little fault to us would appear a great thing in his eyes." "Oh, he is very pious and good, then," Tom remarked, in a doubtful voice.

His shrewd old father had formed his own views as to John Girdlestone's character, and his son had in due course imbibed them from him.
"Yes, of course he is," answered Kate, looking up with great wondering eyes.

"Don't you know that he is the chief supporter of the Purbrook Street Branch of the Primitive Trinitarians, and sits in the front pew three times every Sunday ?" "Ah!" said Tom.
"Yes, and subscribes to all the charitable funds, and is a friend of Mr.Jefferson Edwards, the great philanthropist.

Besides, look how good he has been to me.