"It was an unexpected calamity, Hester," said the father, with one natural look of sorrow; "but we cannot always escape trouble in this world."
"I feel as if we had not done our duty by him!" said the poor mother.
"Why not?-he was very handsomely set up in business," remonstrated Mt. Taylor.
"I was not thinking of money," replied his wife, shaking her head. "But it seems as if we only took him away from my brother's, in the country, just to throw him in the way of temptation as he was growing up, and let him run wild, and do everything he took a fancy to."
"We did no more than other parents, in taking him home with us, to give him a better education than he could have got at your brother's."
"Husband, husband!--it is but a poor education that don't teach a child to do what is right! I feel as if we had never taught him what we ought to. I did not know he had got so many bad ways until lately; and now that I do know it, my heart is broken!"
"Tallman was not so bad as you make him out. He was no worse than a dozen other young gentlemen I could name at this very minute."
"Oh; I would give everything we are worth to bring him back!--but it is too late--too late!"
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