Why, I was quite ready, after I had been married a couple of months, to teach my dear mother all about housekeeping; and finely she laughed at me for it.

But Felicia doesn't trouble to teach me anything; she thinks it isn't worth while." "Oh! I can not believe that Felicia is like that.

You must be mistaken." "Mistaken in my own child, whom I carried in my arms as a little baby?
No, my dear; there are some things about which mothers can never be mistaken, God help them! Do you think I did not understand when the carriage came round to-day to take her and Alan to return Lady Patchingham's visit, and Felicia said, 'Mamma won't go with us to-day, Alan dear, because the wind is in the east, and it always gives her a cold to drive in an open carriage when the wind is in the east'?
Oh! I saw plain enough that she didn't want me to go with them to Lady Patchingham's; but I only thanked her and said I would rather stay indoors, as it would be safer for me.

When they had started I went out and looked at the weather-cock for myself; it pointed southwest." And the big tears rolled down faster than ever.
Elisabeth did not know what to say; so she wisely said nothing, but took Mrs.Herbert's hand in hers and stroked it.
"Perhaps, my dear, I did wrong in allowing Felicia to marry a man who is not a true believer, and this is my punishment." "Oh! no, no, Mrs.Herbert; I don't believe that God ever punishes for the sake of punishing.

He has to train us, and the training hurts sometimes; but when it does, I think He minds even more than we do." "Well, my love, I can not say; it is not for us to inquire into the counsels of the Almighty.