I
decline to be a hypocrite about it; that's all. Now, suppose I have
certain ideas or ideals which I have chosen for the regulation of my
own conduct in life. Suppose some friend of mine has a relative with
ideals directly the opposite of mine, and my friend believes more in
the relative's ideals than in mine: Do you think I ought to give up
my own just to please a person who's taken up ideals that I really
despise?"
"No, dear; of course people can't give up their ideals; but I don't
see what this has to do with dear little Lucy and--"
"I didn't say it had anything to do with them," he interrupted. "I
was merely putting a case to show how a person would be justified in
being a friend of one member of a family, and feeling anything but
friendly toward another. I don't say, though, that I feel unfriendly
to Mr. Morgan. I don't say that I feel friendly to him, and I don't
say that I feel unfriendly; but if you really think that I was rude to
him to-night--"
"Just thoughtless, dear. You didn't see that what you said to-night--"
"Well, I'll not say anything of that sort again where he can hear it.
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