My mother's gentle caresses, and my father's smile of benevolent pleasure while regarding me, are my first recollections. I was their plaything, their idol, and something better - their child, the innocent and helpless creature bestowed on them by Heaven, whom to bring up good, and whose future lot it was in their hands to direct to happiness or misery, according as they fulfilled their duties towards me.' p. 22
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