Chapter 48 CHAPTER XI.

FATHERLY AND MOTHERLY.

"In youth change appears to be certain gain;

Age knows that it is generally certain loss."

"The worst wounds are those our own hands inflict."

"Like as a father pitieth his children."

"A mother is a mother still,

The holiest thing alive."

––Coleridge.

Ten days of the methodical serenity of Burrell Cour