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The First Offence.
smile on any one as he does on Helen Lee . One more picture , and I have done . There is a room , a pleasant room , furnished with taste and comfort . On a sofa , by an open window , looking on to a pretty garden , is an elderly man , pale , and an evident invalidreading . In an arm chair near him is anothersome
, , few years younger , and at his feet , on a stool , an interesting looking woman , gazing up into his face with an air of attention ; he is talking to her earnestly . " I am an old man to you , dear Helen , " he said , smiling rather sadly ; " and may lecture you , and talk to you of my experience—it has been a sad one—so at onceand
reso-, lutely , assist me in the endeavour to break our dear boy of this awful temper—which , alas ! poor child , is , I fear , an inheritance—or indeed , dear Helen , we shall both lament it when it is too late . Punish thc First Offence ; let the first exhibition of violence be reprimanded , and then the child will learn in future to make an effort to control
it . Oh , how much responsibility have parents ; let us never forget this , but instil into his young mind thc necessity of that moral discipline , without which there can be no happiness . I have known two victims to a mistaken system of education ; one poor innocent girl , ruined by her mother ' s inordinate affection , which prevented her , by fear
of giving her child present pain , saving her from future sorrow ; the other , a young man , whose parents forgot , in their anxiety to educate his mind , the equal necessity to educate his heart , and to teach him that self-disci pline of whieh I speak—they omitted to check the glaring faults ofthe boy , and as a man he has suffered fearfullin consequence— and
y , alas ! Helen , made others suffer . What , think you , would be our feelings , if our child , in a fit of passion , had ruined for life the health and prospects of a fellow-creature , in a fit of uncontrollable rage ?" - The invalid on the sofa laid down his book , and , putting his hand on the speaker's shoulder , said , —
" You will never have to suffer this , my dear Wilmot , but live to be as proud of your son as I am of his father ; who has learnt , not only to overcome a fault , but to make so great a reparation for it , that he who was once the injured party , knows not in what manner to evince his gratitude . " The little wife looked up—she docs not understand the illusion ; for her brother never would allow Wilmot to reveal the cause of his accident
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The First Offence.
smile on any one as he does on Helen Lee . One more picture , and I have done . There is a room , a pleasant room , furnished with taste and comfort . On a sofa , by an open window , looking on to a pretty garden , is an elderly man , pale , and an evident invalidreading . In an arm chair near him is anothersome
, , few years younger , and at his feet , on a stool , an interesting looking woman , gazing up into his face with an air of attention ; he is talking to her earnestly . " I am an old man to you , dear Helen , " he said , smiling rather sadly ; " and may lecture you , and talk to you of my experience—it has been a sad one—so at onceand
reso-, lutely , assist me in the endeavour to break our dear boy of this awful temper—which , alas ! poor child , is , I fear , an inheritance—or indeed , dear Helen , we shall both lament it when it is too late . Punish thc First Offence ; let the first exhibition of violence be reprimanded , and then the child will learn in future to make an effort to control
it . Oh , how much responsibility have parents ; let us never forget this , but instil into his young mind thc necessity of that moral discipline , without which there can be no happiness . I have known two victims to a mistaken system of education ; one poor innocent girl , ruined by her mother ' s inordinate affection , which prevented her , by fear
of giving her child present pain , saving her from future sorrow ; the other , a young man , whose parents forgot , in their anxiety to educate his mind , the equal necessity to educate his heart , and to teach him that self-disci pline of whieh I speak—they omitted to check the glaring faults ofthe boy , and as a man he has suffered fearfullin consequence— and
y , alas ! Helen , made others suffer . What , think you , would be our feelings , if our child , in a fit of passion , had ruined for life the health and prospects of a fellow-creature , in a fit of uncontrollable rage ?" - The invalid on the sofa laid down his book , and , putting his hand on the speaker's shoulder , said , —
" You will never have to suffer this , my dear Wilmot , but live to be as proud of your son as I am of his father ; who has learnt , not only to overcome a fault , but to make so great a reparation for it , that he who was once the injured party , knows not in what manner to evince his gratitude . " The little wife looked up—she docs not understand the illusion ; for her brother never would allow Wilmot to reveal the cause of his accident