Yet we can get at the reason of it by thinking a little.
All these appliances are to shield the sensibility from disagreeable contacts, and to soothe it by varied natural and artificial influences.
In this way the mind, the taste, the feelings, grow delicate, just as the hands grow white and soft when saved from toil and incased in soft gloves.

The whole nature becomes subdued into suavity.

I confess I like the quality ladies better than the common kind even of literary ones.
They have n't read the last book, perhaps, but they attend better to you when you are talking to them.

If they are never learned, they make up for it in tact and elegance.

Besides, I think, on the whole, there is less self-assertion in diamonds than in dogmas.