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parents. When their parents came into the room, 

 they all rose instinctively from their seats and never 

 resumed them until their parents were seated; and 

 when either parent was speaking, no matter with 

 whom they had been conversing, they were all 

 immediately silent. 



"Quarreling and contention were in her family 

 wholly unknown. She carefully observed the first 

 appearance of resentment and ill-will in her young 

 children towards any person whatever, and did not 

 connive at it, but was careful to show her displeas- 

 ure, and suppress it to the utmost; yet not by 

 angry, wrathful words. 



"Her system of discipline began at a very early 

 age, and it was her rule to resist the first, as well 

 as every subsequent exhibition of temper or disobe- 

 dience in the child, however young, until its will 

 was brought into submission to the will of the 

 parents." 



It is needless to say that all this added materi- 

 ally to the good inheritance of the children. 



