His wish was that the girl should be well educated and prepared for any change in her circumstances--but unfortunately she has proved to be rather a wilful young person, and it has been impossible entirely to fulfil his intentions with regard to her.

Ah, he wasn't wise always, poor Jonathan, but I never doubted that he meant well at bottom, however things may have appeared.

His anxiety in the case of your mother was very beautiful, and if his plans seem to have miscarried, we must lay the blame after all, on the quality of his judgment, not of his heart." "And the girl will be twenty-one next April, I am told ?" "Her birthday is the seventeenth, exactly ten years from the date of Jonathan's death.".