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Had the author published his own works, we should have sat quietly down to disentangle his intricacies, and clear his obscurities; but now we tear what we cannot loose, and eject what we happen not to understand. The faults are more than could have happened without the concurrence of many causes.
"We all know de Chargny and have fought against him. Many faults he has, a boaster and a brawler, but a braver man and one of greater heart and higher of enterprise does not ride beneath the lilies of France. Such a man would never stoop to write a letter for the sake of putting dishonor upon one of knightly rank. I, for one, will never believe it."
Wherefore I still may pray you to pardon my past faults. And though I go to the Meido, never shall I forget your mercy to me great as the mountains and the sea. From under the shadow of the grasses I shall still try to recompense you to send back my gratitude to you and to your house. Again, with all my heart I pray you: do not be angry with me. 'Many more things I would like to write.
And as true charity not only covers a multitude of sins, but includes a multitude of virtues, such as forgiveness, liberal construction, gentleness and mercy to the faults of others, and the remembrance of our own imperfections and advantages, he bade us not inquire too closely into the venial errors of the poor, but finding that they WERE poor, first to relieve and then endeavour at an advantage to reclaim them.
He was becoming distinctly more middle-class than either of us, with some of the faults of the so-called upper class thrown in. He chattered about Harvard, not as an opportunity, but as a class privilege. I didn't like it. But before I had time to worry much about this the crash came that I had not been wise enough to foresee.
Their very defects preventing them from making proper comparisons, they are altogether too prone to ignore their faults and to magnify their virtues and so fall an easy prey to the designer and the sharper. Their very carelessness in estimating other people becomes the foundation of an involuntary partiality the moment they are called upon to judge their own actions.
I was not taught to draw, but looked on while Nasmyth painted; then a picture was given me to copy, the master correcting the faults. Though I spoilt canvas, I had made some progress by the end of the season. Mr. Nasmyth, besides being a good artist, was clever, well-informed, and had a great deal of conversation.
"'I look beyond thy brow's concealment! I see thy spirit's dark revealment! Thy inner self betrayed I see: Thy coward, craven, shivering ME! "'We think we know one another, exclaimed Rollins; 'but do we? We see the faults of others, their weaknesses, their disagreeable qualities, and we keep silent.
My own mother says it a fastidious fool, always looking out for faults, putting meanings to everything starting at a touch, like a restive horse." How it was that she understood him, and perceived that to put his faults in the clearest light was the best thing she could do for him, it would be hard to tell. She laid her other hand upon his bent head.
"I don't know if you have seen Ely. There the old painting has been largely restored...." From that to the end there was no real danger, and at last the bishop found himself alone with his wife again. "Remarkable person," he said tentatively. "I never met any one whose faults were more visible. I met her at Wimbush House." He glanced at his watch.
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