But there exists another and more subtle danger in the careless use of words, particularly with regard to personal remarks, like that of these same children when they cried to our good master: 'Thou hast come in two,' directing the attention to a living body.

I have a rare thing in my memory which perhaps may lead you to perceive my meaning darkly.
'A certain husbandman (fellah) was troubled with a foolish wife.
Having to go out one day, he gave her full instructions what to do about the place, and particularly bade her fix her mind upon their cow, because he was afraid the cow might stray, as she had done before, and cause ill-feeling with the neighbours.

He never thought that such a charge to such a person, tending to concentrate the woman's mind upon a certain object, was disastrous.

The man meant well; the woman, too, meant well.

She gave her whole mind to obey his parting words.