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provide for his children. God forbid that I
should imagine any man to be sufficiently wick-
ed to say—I have been the means of bringing
this child into existence—I have brought it up
in the indulgence of all the luxuries with which
I indulged myself; and now I intend to with-
draw them all from it, and leave it to fight its
own way through the world. No man could
look on the face of the innocent child nestling
in your bosom and say that; but if you do not
appropriate a portion of the means you possess
to save that child from the ‘ hereafter,’ you act
as if you had resolved so to cast it on the wild
waters of a turbulent world.”

‘But, Charles, I intend to do all that you
counsel; no wonder poor Lucy could not bear
these words, when I, your own and only bro-
ther, find them stern and reproachful; no won-
der that such should be the case; of course I
intend to provide for my children.”

‘Then po 1T,” said Charles.

‘“ Why, so I will; but cannot in a moment.
I have already said there is no hurry. You
must give a little time.”

‘The time may come, my dear John, when
TIME will give you no time. You have been
spending over and above your debt—more than,
as the father of four children, you have any
right to spend. The duty parents owe their
children in this respect has preyed more strong-.
ly on my mind than usual, as I have been call-

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