filiam unicam parvam post obitum uxoris relictam solacio caelibatus alit avita teneritudine, materna diligentia, paterna benignitate; erga familiam suam nec in proferendo alloquio minax nec in admittendo consilio spernax nec in reatu investigando persequax; subiectorum statum condicionemque non dominio sed iudicio regit; putes eum propriam domum non possidere sed potius administrare.
He has an only daughter, left in early childhood to comfort his loneliness on the death of his wife. Her he brings up with a grandparents tenderness, a mothers care, and a fathers kindliness. Towards his household he is not threatening in his manner of address, contemptuous in his reception of suggestions, or vindictive in his investigation of wrong-doing; he regulates the lot and condition of his subordinates with discretion, not with a high hand; you could think he was not the owner of his own house but the steward in charge of it.
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