If a girl gets to know that you have received back such a person as Miss Royston she will be corrupted by your spirit of charity--corrupted, at all events, for our purposes.

The endeavour to give women a new soul is so difficult that we can't be cumbered by side-tasks, such as fishing foolish people out of the mud they have walked into.

Charity for human weakness is all very well in its place, but it is precisely one of the virtues that you must _not_ teach.

You have to set an example of the sterner qualities--to discourage anything that resembles sentimentalism.

And think if you illustrate in your own behaviour a sympathy for the very vice of character we are trying our hardest to extirpate!' 'This is a terrible harangue,' said Miss Barfoot, when the passionate voice had been silent for a few ticks of the clock.