Part 20

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Whatever our disbeliefs, most of us profoundly believe in goodness; and we incline to believe that a man who has practically learned the secret of noble living has somehow got near the truth of things.

GEO. S. MERRIAM.

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"A man's bad temper sometimes does more toward spoiling a dinner than a woman's bad cooking."

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Her voice was ever soft, Gentle and low; an excellent thing in Woman.

SHAKESPEARE.

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True politeness is perfect ease and freedom. It simply consists in treating others just as you love to be treated yourself.

CHESTERFIELD.

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A man has no more right to say an uncivil thing than to act one, no more right to say a rude thing to another than to knock him down.

JOHNSON.

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How sweet and gracious, even in common speech, Is that fine sense which men call courtesy! Wholesome as air and genial as the light, Welcome in every clime as breath of flowers,---- It transmutes aliens into trusting friends, And gives its owner passport round the globe.

J. T. FIELDS.

THE END.

TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES

1. Passages in italics are surrounded by underscores.

2. Punctuation errors have been corrected without note.

3. The following misprints have been corrected: "repuation" corrected to "reputation" (page 2) "sympatheic" corrected to "sympathetic" (page 38) "Stael" corrected to "Staël" (page 59)

4. Other than the corrections listed above, printer's inconsistencies in spelling and hyphenation have been retained.