go and see my father immediately i know he would be hurt by my failing in such a mark of respect to him on the present occasion i shall therefore set off to morrow if he would say so to her at once in the tone of decision becoming a man there would be no opposition made to his going no said laughing but perhaps there might be some made to his coming back again such language for a young man entirely dependent to use i nobody but you mr would imagine it possible but you have not an idea of what is requisite in situations directly opposite to your own mr frank to be making such a speech as that to the uncle and aunt who have brought him up and are to provide for him � standing up in the middle of the room i suppose and speaking as loud as he could how can you imagine such conduct practicable depend upon it a sensible man would find no difficulty in it he would feel himself in the right and the declaration � made of course as a man of sense would make it in a proper manner � would do him more good raise him higher fix his interest stronger with the people he depended on than all that a line of and can ever do respect would be added to affection they would feel that they could trust him that the nephew who had done rightly by his father would do rightly by them for they know as well as he does � as well as all the world must know � that he ought to pay this visit to his father and while their power to delay it are in their hearts not thinking the better of him for to their respect for right conduct is felt by every body if he would act in this sort of manner on principle regularly their little minds would bend to his i rather doubt that you are very fond of bending little minds but where little minds belong to rich people in authority i think they have a of swelling out till they are quite as as great ones i can imagine that if you as you are mr were to be transported and placed all at once in mr frank s situation you would be able to say and do just what you have been for him and it might have a very good effect the might not have a word to say in return but then you would have no habits of early obedience and long to break through to him who has it might not be so easy to burst forth at once into perfect independence and set all their claims on his gratitude and regard at he may have as strong a sense of what would be right as you can have without being so equal under particular circumstances to act up to it then it would not be so strong a sense if it failed to produce equal exertion it could not be an equal conviction oh the difference of situation and habit i wish you would try to understand what an amiable young man may be likely to feel in directly opposing those whom as child and boy he has been looking up to all his life your amiable young man is a very weak young man if this be the first occasion of his carrying through a resolution to do right against the will of others it ought to have been a habit with him by this time of following his duty instead of consulting i can allow for the fears of the child but not of the man as he became rational he ought i x to have roused himself and shaken off all that was unworthy in their authority he ought to have opposed the first attempt on their side to make him slight his father had he begun as he ought there would have been no difficulty now we shall never agree about him cried but that is nothing extraordinary i have not the least idea of his being a weak young man i feel sure that he is not mr would not be blind to folly though in his own son but he is very likely to have a more yielding mild disposition than would suit your notions of man s perfection i dare say he has and though it may cut him off from some advantages it will secure him many others yes all the advantages of sitting still when he ought to move and of leading a life of mere idle pleasure and himself extremely expert in finding excuses for it he can sit down and write a fine flourishing letter full of professions and and persuade himself that he has hit upon the very best method in the world of preserving peace at home and preventing his father s having any right to complain his letters disgust me your feelings are singular they seem to satisfy every body else i suspect they do not satisfy mrs they hardly can satisfy a woman of her good sense and quick feelings standing in a mother s place but without a mother s affection to blind her it is on her account that attention tb is doubly due and she must doubly feel the had she been a person of consequence herself he would have come i dare say and it would not have signified whether he did or no can you think your friend behind hand in these sort of considerations do you suppose she does not often say all this to herself no your amiable young man can be amiable only in french not in english he may be very f amiable have very good manners and be very agreeable but he can have no english delicacy to � b the of other people 