If I have seemed ill-natured, pardon me.

It is not my nature to find fault, or to criticise.

I rather prefer looking upon the bright side.

Like Sir Joshua Reynolds, 'I am a wide liker.' There are times, you know, in which we are all tempted to act in a way that gives to others a false impression of our real characters." "No one is more conscious of that than I am," replied Miss Loring.
"Indeed, it seems often, as if I were made the sport of adverse influences, and constrained to act and to appear wholly different from what I desire to seem.

There are some of life's phenomena, Mr.
Dexter, that puzzle at times my poor brain sorely." "Don't puzzle over such things, Miss Loring," said Mr.Dexter; "I never do.