Lucy, indeed, was not demonstrative: and she was, moreover, one of those few persons--for they are very few--who are contented to go on with their existence without making themselves the centre of any special outward circle.

To the ordinary run of minds it is impossible not to do this.

A man's own dinner is to himself so important that he cannot bring himself to believe that it is a matter utterly indifferent to every one else.

A lady's collection of baby-clothes, in early years, and of house linen and curtain-fringes in later life, is so very interesting to her own eyes, that she cannot believe but what other people will rejoice to behold it.

I would not, however, be held as regarding this tendency as evil.