But, daughter dear, old age will come to us all, if we live, and it is quite useless to fight against the inevitable." "Yet we needn't hurry it on, mamma." "No; but consider; had I and my eldest daughter married as early in life as my mother did I might now have own grandchildren as old as Max and Lulu.

Beside," she added gayly, "how can I hope to deceive people into supposing me young when I have three married children." "Yes, mamma, that is true," Violet said, after a moment's thought; "and perhaps the children may be more ready to submit to the guidance and control of a grandma than of an aunt.

Oh, how thankful I am that when their father is no longer here to govern them, they will not be left to my management alone!".