courtous

Updated: May 2, 2025

I s'pose she thought that would scare me, but it didn't. I says, "I believe in takin' truth direct from God's own hand and revelation. But I don't have any faith in modern spiritual seansys. They seem to me, and I would say it in a polite, courtous way, for I wouldn't hurt your feelin's for the world, all mixed up with modern greed and humbug."

Marietta Holley - Sweet Cicely — or Josiah Allen as a Politician