The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-06-15
yEsDAY. JUNE is. 1870.
RetIcepce An Art,

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ndon Saturday Revieao has
on the art of reticence, from
extract may prove agree
ne guests at our table. The
ather exhaustive than sug-
ID our mullins would get
read you the whole Of it.
r says that there is the
inmate art in appearing alb
rank. yet never telling any
eh it is not wished should be
being pleasantly ehatty and
.onal, yet never committing
0 a statement or an opin-
might de used against one
-Grs celare Grten1 in keep
)Wn counsel as well as in
rs. Tt is only after a long
&c with this kind of person
I'D out he has been substan-
nt throughout though APP
jfaz. Caught by his easy
esnial talk. his ready
you have confided to him
4 you have of your own,
. have of other peoples;
My long after, when you
ietly, undisturbed by the
! of his presence. that you
knowledge Of how reticent
a in the midst of this SEEM
ess, and how little recipro-
has been In your -confden
er. You know such people
and you never know really
EN- at the end than you did
inning. You can not lay
II on q fact that would in
lace them in your power,
h you did not notice it at
and don't know how it has
9 now, you feel that they
d trusted you, and have all
fully avoided anything like
But you are at their
your own rashness, and If
destroy you il 10 because |
aeent for you as well a. to-
perhaps because they are |
rad nerhaps because thew
On for your frankness too |
1r you bat above all things
.se they are unable. How
lem when you think OF the
which they took all that
4 10 them, yet never let you
aye back nothing for their
by the jugglery of
age you believe that they
q back as much as they were
Perhaps it was q little I'm
but they had the right to
if you could not keep your
3el you would net be likely
leirs, and it was only kind
e to let you hoodwiak your
Il you might not be offended.
n genial, frank. converse
mpathetic--in substance alb
scret, cautious. never taken
guard, never seduced into
condolences, as careful for
ads as they are for them
/ careful even for strangers
TO them-these people are
ion as they are the charm of
ever making mischief, and,
abitual reticenen -aIsing up
t which gossip nAIts and ru
No SANDER is ever traced
nd what they know Is as
were not. Yet they do not
clumsy mistake of letting
at they are better informed |
self on certain subjects, and
e about the currentscandals |
than they choose to reveal
ltrary, they listen to your
takes with a highly edited
ave you elated with the idea
have let them behind the
d told them more than they
re. Ifonly they had spoken.
ion would not have been
ig-lived, OF all personal
this art of reticence is the
ortant and valuable for a
al man to possess. Lawyer
90, he must be able to hold
ar all without betraying by
,ok, by injudicious defense
haa by overt treachery, by
a malicious accusation any
i by a smile at an egregious
his business is to be reti-
,xculpatory; to MAINTAIN ST.
set up a defense, nor yet
he truth. To do this we'll
rare coordination of good /
among which are tact and /
3t In about equal amount,
land aud the power of hit
fine line which marks off
from deception. No man
thoroughly successful as Ell
yer or physician who did
5 this combination; and
q a modest amount of tech
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