shows by his manner that he is master of the situation.

In a few years Macaulay saved from the wreck enough to secure his father,
mother and sisters against want for the rest of their days, and eventually
he paid every creditor in full with interest. Had he run away from the
difficulty, as his father was on the point of doing, the family would have
been turned homeless into the streets.

Moral--Things are never so bad as they seem; and all difficulties sneak
away when you look them squarely in the eye.

At this time the family, consisting of the father, mother, three sisters
and a brother, lived at Fifty Great Ormond Street, not far from the
British Museum. The house is still standing, but I recently discovered
that the occupants know nothing, and care less, about Thomas Macaulay.

Tom was the child of his mother. In temperament, disposition and physique
he was as much unlike his father as two men can well be. Old Zachary
Macaulay was a strong, earnest man who took himself seriously. In latter
years he grew morose, puritanic and was full of dread of the Unseen. He
preached long sermons to his family, cautioned them against frivolity,
forbade music, tabued games, and constantly spoke of the tongue as "the
unruly member."

He, of course, was not aware of it, but he was teaching his children by
antithesis.

"When I meet Macaulay I always imagine I am in Holland," once said Sydney
Smith.