Directly after one of these attacks, he, as was his habit, followed the cravings of an undisciplined appetite, and attended, late at night, a pea-nut-and-candy supper, almost immediately after which he was taken violently ill and died in three days.

The four remaining children do not, all told, possess enough constitution to make one strong man.

They are all delicate and constant sufferers.
In this case judicious care might have averted the above-mentioned evils.

Would the game have been worth the candle?
This is a question which parents cannot afford to disregard.

It is expedient for them to consider seriously whether or not the stock on both sides of the family, of which their children come, is so good as to warrant neglect or to justify over-indulgence.
Our mother-tongue does not offer us a phrase by which we may express what we mean by _l'enfant terrible_.