29/31 Where is the use of caring for him so very much: he is full of faults." "Is he ?" "All boys are." "More than girls ?" "Very likely. Wise people say it is folly to think anybody perfect; and as to likes and dislikes, we should be friendly to all, and worship none." "Are you a wise person ?" "I mean to try to be so. Go to sleep." "I _cannot_ go to sleep. Have you no pain just here" (laying her elfish hand on her elfish breast,) "when you think _you_ shall have to leave Graham; for _your_ home is not here ?" "Surely, Polly," said I, "you should not feel so much pain when you are very soon going to rejoin your father. Have you forgotten him? |