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Francis
How many thousands, who have drank deep of the cup of pleasure, have been reclaimed by suffering?—Is not the bodily pain which is the consequence of vice a certain mark of the interposition of Heaven? And must the tenderness of man impiously strive to avert that salutary consequence?—Think on that, Sir.—If he is exposed for some time to the pressure of misfortune, is it not probable he will amend?—But if, in the great school of affliction, he still remains incorrigible, then—woe be to that misguided parent, who counteracts the decrees of eternal Wisdom!—What say you, Father?
O. Moor.
I will write to him, that I throw him off for ever!
Francis.
'Twere right, and wisely done.
O. Moor.
That he never see my face again.—
Francis.
That will have a good effect.