I am sorry, therefore, she has had the pain of apologizing." "You are very kind to be so ready to over look her insolence," the captain said; "but I cannot permit such exhibitions of temper, and must, at whatever cost, teach her to rule her own spirit." "Doubtless you are right," Edward said; "but I am concerned and mortified to find that I have got her into such disgrace and trouble.

I must own I am quite attached to Lulu; she has some very noble and lovable traits of character." "She has indeed," said his mother; "she is so free from the least taint of hypocrisy or deceit; so perfectly honest and truthful; so warm-hearted, too; so diligent and energetic in anything she undertakes to do--very painstaking and persevering--and a brave, womanly little thing." The captain's face brightened very much as he listened to these praises of his child.
"I thank you heartily, mother and brother," he said; "for the child is very dear to her father's heart, and praise of her is sweet to my ear.

I can see all these lovable traits, but feared that to other eyes than mine they might be entirely obscured by the very grave faults joined with them.

But it is just like you both to look at the good rather than the evil.
"And you have done so much for my children! I assure you I often think of it with the feeling that you have laid me under obligations which I can never repay." "Ah, captain," Elsie said, laughingly, "you have a fashion of making a great mountain out of a little mole-hill of kindness.

Flattery is not good for human nature, you know, so I shall leave you and go back to papa, who has a wholesome way of telling me of my faults and failings." "I really don't know where he finds them," returned Captain Raymond, gallantly; but she was already out of hearing.
"Nor I," said Violet, replying to his last remark; "mamma seems to me to be as nearly perfect as a human creature can be in this sinful world." "Now don't feel troubled about it, Ned," Zoe was saying to her husband, who was again at her side.