Hot water, sugar, 'n' jest a little shavin' of lemon-skin in it,--skin, mind you, none o' your juice; take it off thin,--shape of one of them flat curls the factory-girls wear on the sides of their foreheads.
But I am a teetotaller,--said the divinity-student in a subdued tone;--not noticing the enormous length of the bow-string the young fellow had just drawn.
He took up his hat and went out.
I think you have worried that young man more than you meant,--I said .-- I don't believe he will jump off one of the bridges, for he has too much principle; but I mean to follow him and see where he goes, for he looks as if his mind were made up to something.
I followed him at a reasonable distance.

He walked doggedly along, looking neither to the right nor the left, turned into State Street, and made for a well-known Life-Insurance Office.

Luckily, the doctor was there and overhauled him on the spot.

There was nothing the matter with him, he said, and he could have his life insured as a sound one.

He came out in good spirits, and told me this soon after.
This led me to make some remarks the next morning on the manners of well-bred and ill-bred people.
I began,--The whole essence of true gentle-breeding (one does not like to say gentility) lies in the wish and the art to be agreeable.
Good-breeding is surface-Christianity.