Perhaps it's a recognition of my humane sentiments." "Oh, it's very easy to have humane sentiments, and to satirize ourselves for wanting eight rooms and a bath in a good neighborhood, when we see how these wretched creatures live," said his wife.

"But if we shared all we have with them, and then settled down among them, what good would it do ?" "Not the least in the world.

It might help us for the moment, but it wouldn't keep the wolf from their doors for a week; and then they would go on just as before, only they wouldn't be on such good terms with the wolf.

The only way for them is to keep up an unbroken intimacy with the wolf; then they can manage him somehow.

I don't know how, and I'm afraid I don't want to.