The revivification of her affections for him was one of those capricious manifestations of feeling which can emanate from no other source but the heart of a mother.

Independently of this, there was in the mind of Mrs.Lindsay a principle of conscious guilt, of hardness of heart, of all want of common humanity, that sometimes startled her into terror.

She knew the villany of her son Woodward, and, after all, the heart of a woman and a mother is not like the heart of a man.

There is a tendency to recuperation in a woman's and a mother's heart, which can be found nowhere else; and the contrast which she felt herself forced to institute between the generous character of her son Charles and the villany of Woodward broke down the hard propensities of her spirit, and subdued her very wickedness into something like humanity.

Virtue and goodness, after all, will work their way, especially where a mother's feelings, conscious of the evil and conscious of the good, are forced to strike the balance between them.