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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Mansion by Henry van Dyke: disapproval
for both of these forms of imprudence; but is was never expressed
in
a harsh or violent way, always with a certain tolerant patience,
such as one might show for the mistakes and vagaries of the very
young.
John Weightman was not hasty, impulsive, inconsiderate, even
toward his
own children. With them, as with the rest of the world, he felt
that he
had a reputation to maintain, a theory to vindicate. He could
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