text:  How the old man envied the prosperous bridegroom and how vainly he wished that his boy might have done as well; and how through his small grey eye the labouring tear-drops oozed as he called fresh to mind again all that he had promised himself at the birth of his unhappy prodigal! What would he not give to recover and reform the wayward boy? The thought occurred to him and he dallied with it for his pleasure