Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-03-16

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 "Oh, you have not? We'll how would you like to have somebody always tell ing you that Apollo was humpbacked and misshapen compared with you; that Endynion would have covered his face had he but seen yours Nld so on?'
 T don't know, but think I should like it fKVm some persons" he replied, looking ever so innocent.
 This savored of familiarity after so brief an acquaintance and caused the princess to glance up in, slight surprise, but only for the instanS for his inno- cent look disarmed her.
 II have mind to see," she returned, laughing and throwing her head back as she looked up at him out of the cor ner of her lustrous eyes. "But will pay you better compliment. posi- lively thank you for the,rebuke. do many things like that, for W5ich am always sorry. Oh, you don't saaow how difficult 1t is to be good princessw And she shook her head with a gather ing of little trouble wrinkles in her forehead, as much as to say, "There is no getting away from 1t, though" Then she breathed a soft little sigh of tribu- lation as they walked on.
 II know 1t must be task to be good when everybody f1atters even one's shortcomings said Brandon and then continued in a way that, am free to confess, was something priggish: Tt is almost impossible for us to see our own faults even when others are kind enough to point them out, for they are right ugly things and unpleasant to look upon. But, lacking those outside monitors, one must all the more culti- vate the habit of constant unlocking and self examination If we are only brave enough to confront our faults and look them in the face, ugly as they are, we shall be sure to overcome the worst of them. A striving toward good will achieve at least part of it."
 "Ohp returned the princess. "But what is good and what is wrong? So often we cannot tell them apart until we look back at what we have done, and then it is all too late. I truly wish to be good more than desire anything else in the world. am so ignorant and helpless and have such strong inclina- tions to do wrong that sometimes I seem to be almost all wrong. The priests say so much, but tell us so little. They talk about St. Peter and St Paul and a host of other saints and holy fa- thers and what nots, but fail to tell us what we need every moment of our lives; that is, how to know the right when we see it, and how to do it; and how to know the wrong and how to avoid it. They ask us to believe so much and insist that faith is the sum of virtue and the lack of 1t the sum of sin, that to faith all things are added, but we might believe every syllable of their whole disturbing creed and then spoil it all through blind ignorance of what is right and what is wrong"
 ''As to knowing right and wrong," replied Brandon, "I think I can give you rule which, although 1t may not cover the whole ground, is excellent for everyday use. It is this, Whatever makes others unhappy is wrong, what ever makes the world happier is good. As to how we are always to do this I cannot tell you. One has to learn that by trying. We can but try, and if we fail altogether there is still virtue in every futile effort toward the right
 Mary bent her head as she walked along in thought.
 "What you have said is the only ap- proach to rule for knowing and doing the right I have ever heard. Now what do you think of me as fatterer? But it will do no good. The bad is in me too strong. It always does itself be- fore can apply any rule or even real- tze what is coming" And again she shook her head, with bewitching lit- tie look of trouble.
 Pardon me, your highness, but there is no bad in you. It has been put on you by others and is all on the outside. There is none of it in your heart at ali That evil which you think comes out of you simply falls from you. Your heart is all right or I have greatly mis- judged you" He was treating her al- most as if she were child.
 T fear, Master Brandon, you are the most adroit fiatterer of all," said Mary, shaking her head and looking up at him with side glance. People have deluged me with all kinds of fattery I have different sorts listed and labeled but no one has ever gone to the ex- travagant length of calling me good. Perhaps they think I do not care for that, but I like it best I don't like the others at all. If am beautiful or not 1t Is as God made me, and I have noth- ing to do with 1t and desire no credit, but if could only be good it might be my own doing perhaps, and ought to have praise. wonder if there is really and truly any good in me and if you have read me aright 1" Then, looking