But I try to give everybody fair play; and those that are in the wrong are in far more need of it always than those who are in the right: they can afford to do without it.

Therefore I say for you that when you shot that arrow you did not know what a pigeon is.

Now that you do know, you are sorry.

It is very dangerous to do things you don't know about.' 'But, please, ma'am--I don't mean to be rude or to contradict you,' said Curdie, 'but if a body was never to do anything but what he knew to be good, he would have to live half his time doing nothing.' 'There you are much mistaken,' said the old quavering voice.

'How little you must have thought! Why, you don't seem even to know the good of the things you are constantly doing.