Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Per in. No one ever served a cause with a heavier handicap than did Jeanie and her boy, the family enterprise. It was in the nature both of his Scotch ancestry and his own persona ity that Cameron, however unfitted for the respon ib lity, should administer his business affairs wholly himself, excluding his wife and son both from his confidence and from the knowledge of anything but the active details of the industry. It was also in the nature of things that these transactions should have been unquestioned by them. Cameron combined with a nature, erratic and impractical, that frequent supplement, a dominating personality, which over-rules opposition and wrests confidence by the force of it's own certainty. In the presence of his wife and youngest son, his Victory had been an eas one His domination was complete—and disastrous. To Jeanie it was accustomed, the experience of a life time beginning with the masculine domination of her father's family. It was natural that she should have no part in her husband's life other than to serve him and his children with the work of her two hands. For Duncan the policy of his father was peculiarly unfortunate. He already had too much of his mother's self repression and deprecation. At twelve he toiled at man's work with men on the vineyard, but he worked mainly with brawn and muscle. His mind was enthralled, and dependent; his powers of thought repressed by the domination of his father's compelling mind, when they should have been advancing in pace with his physical development. His mental world was restricted to the field of his father's opinions, and his father's prejudices were impressed upon his young mind with the ineffaceableness that a mature personality may effect on ayoung and impressionable child who is prepar d by affection an...