not know that Honor ever compelled a to gamble or to provoke a quarrel; but has gambled or if he has quarrelled-if is undertaken to play the lamentable game must not skulk behind a policeman, like a aby or a sans-culotte, because things have gone his way. If he has broken, he must art of the code of honor begins only when Christian precept has been broken. Is it so a thing, in a fallible world, to be told what o after you have once done something g? The Catechism, as a practical guide, ofully incomplete without the code of the eman as an appendix. If you had sinned, Puritan told you to repent; and he was right. But there is work left for the sinner the repenting has been done. Both Honor the Catechism will do their best to keep out of a mess. The difference comes : for after you have got into a mess, the chism leaves you to God, while Honor s you how, if you have done ill to fellow gs, to repair that ill and not extend it. onor is a matter of practical politics m W ge W ic gi ar m th W W ts y S W e i S ever compelled: ke a quarrel; bu mas quarrelled- lamentable game policeman, like cause things have broken, he must begins only when e. Both Honor may not be the proper sport of cyn women; but to the average busy cr gentleman is wholly delightful in wholly predicable. The Christian is icable, for the simple reason that h given a counsel of perfection. You any given Christian will, by the majority, have done some, at lea things which the Catechism has warned him not to do. "The way t walked upon is not the perfect way," tse long ago. The Church does not b you have always done everything sponsors in baptism so cheerfully would do. The confessional is itself est confession that the Church has One of the most convenient things ab is that its explicit code is limited; an say of some men when they die that never for a moment ceased to be Honor is of the world, worldlypeople have distorted that magnificer an accusation. That is what Mr. K done in "Tomlinson." All this about Honor is not so mu [179] апу кша, there are cases when the gentleman must he is to be a gentleman. The gentleman not betray the friend who has trusted him, though he may bitterly object to having friend's secrets on his hands. From that eme obligation lies sometimes of necessity t. I said just now that Honor and John in must often have fought for the young ; and it does not take an over-vivid imagon to conceive cases. Religion (in spite of Decalogue) has tended to lump all lies ther as the offspring of the Devil, while ode of the gentleman has always set aside w lies as consecrated and de rigueur. But gentleman, I venture to say, has always those lies in the spirit in which a man lays n his life for his friend. For no gentleman on any occasion, with unmixed pleasure. Feels, rather, as if he had put on rags. is easier as some sociologists do-to the curves of a desire than to fix the daries of truth. The domain of truth is world-wide: that, we know. They must be er 01 li Su a th m a a e gentemat The rea o has trusted on object to bra bands. From c times of necssor Honor and lic Se for the vous gion in splat logists do to eminently intended to deceive. We e of other civilized beings and expect lized beings to expect them of us such falsehoods, and such falsehood are still on truth's own ground. The the liar's own sake marks the mom man has passed from beneath her across her shadowy sphere of influe already hot-foot into the jungle. [181] of mine told me that she had never, in her lhood, been able to get any real pleasure of Louisa Alcott's stories. It had never rred to me that being brought up in New <instead of in New England, or even g of Southern instead of Pilgrim stock, d make all that difference. Miss Alcott ned the safe inheritance, the absolutely inable delight, of childhood. Little Women as universal as Hamlet. I remembered ectly that French playmates of mine in s had loved Les Quatre Filles du DocMarch (though the French version was ably somewhat expurgated). If children Latin-moreover, of a Royalist and Cath-tradition could find no flaw in Miss tt's presentment of young life, I could not why any free-born American child should to find it sympathetic. questioned my friend more closely. Her ver set me thinking; and it is probably to that I owe my later appreciation of Miss ott's special quality and special documenvalue. For what my friend said was simply del ep pri the is wh ces wi go Di an ill ex m or W bi ar m SC b C b |