False Friends, and The Sailor's Resolve

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Lady Grange Reading To Her Son. Page 19.

A Talk About The Picture. Page 33.
1884.

Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward. —PROV. xxii. 5.

Reflection. Page 25.
Philip, your conduct has distressed me exceedingly, said Lady Grange, laying her hand on the arm of her son, as they entered together the elegant apartment which had been fitted up as her boudoir. You could not but know my feelings towards those two men—I will not call them gentlemen—whose company you have again forced upon me. You must be aware that your father has shut the door of this house against them.
My father has shut the door against better men than they are, said the youth carelessly; witness my own uncles Henry and George.