I should not even have told you about my wife.

It is all so humiliating." "It was yourself which obliged yourself," she pointed out,--"I mean that the truthfulness was part of yourself.

Do you know, it has set me thinking so often.

If only people realized how attractive absolute simplicity, absolute candor is, the world would be so much easier a place to live in, and so much more beautiful! Life is so full of small shams, so many imperfectly hidden little deceits.

Even if you had not told me this strange story about yourself, I think that I should still have felt this quality about you." "I should like," he declared, "to have you conceive a passion for the truth.