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"It would be just like you to be so, auntie, and I would notquite ill myself if I could have you to take care ofes"

"The trouble with most of us, Laura, is that we beco people are often their oorst eneood, you must do it, as it were, on the sly If one tries openly to reforuide them--if I should say plainly, Such and such are your faults; such and such places and associations are full of danger--they would be angry or disgusted, or they would say I was blue and strait-laced, and had an old woman's notions of what a uise myit I also find it true in ood wholesos It see fellows refining, steadying, purifying influences, I can do theood than if I lectured them The latter is the easier way, and many take it It would require but a fewHaldane what his wise safe course must be if he would avoid shipwreck; but I can see his face flush and lip curl atfor hie hioes hoood, wise ht in life"

"Then this youngindeed"

"Is he so very bad, auntie?" Laura asked with a face full of serious concern

Mrs Arnot sht think hi and rich, and his inclination to be fast would be a piquant fact in his favor He has done things which would see indeed But he is foolish and ill-trained rather than bad He is a spoiled boy, and spoiled boys are apt to become spoiledbeen your mother's companion all your life, you are so old-fashioned that I can talk to you almost as I would to sister Fanny, and partly because I like to talk about my hobby"