He forgot that it is not the trick of friendship, but of love, to make "a corner" in affection, and to monopolize the whole stock of the commodity.
"You see," Elisabeth explained, "I am so frightfully modern, and yet I have been brought up in such a dreadfully old-fashioned way.

It was all very well for the last generation to accept revealed truth without understanding it, but it won't do for us." "Why not ?" "Oh! because we are young and modern." "So were they at one time, and we shall not be so for long." Elisabeth sighed again.

"How difficult you are! Of course, the sort of religion that did for Cousin Maria and Mr.Smallwood won't do for Mr.
Tremaine and me.

Can't you see that ?" "I can not, I am sorry to say." "Their religion had no connection with their intellects." "Still, it changed their hearts, which I have heard is no unimportant operation." "They accepted what they were told without trying to understand it," Elisabeth continued, "which is not, after all, a high form of faith." "Indeed.

I should have imagined that it was the highest." "But can't you see that to accept blindly what you are told is not half so great as to sift it all, and to separate the chaff from the wheat, and to find the kernel of truth in the shell of tradition ?" Elisabeth had not talked to Alan Tremaine for over a year without learning his tricks of thought and even of expression.