Slow and sure! Yes, that is the true doctrine.
Watson was right, as the result has proved.

Happy for me that his was a better experiment than that of the envied Mortimer!" THE SCHOOL GIRL.
"WHERE now ?" said Frederick Williams to his friend Charles Lawson, on entering his own office and finding the latter, carpet-bag in hand, awaiting his arrival.
"Off for a day or two on a little business affair," replied Lawson.
"Business! What have you to do with business ?" "Not ordinary, vulgar business," returned Lawson with a slight toss of the head and an expression of contempt.
"Oh! It's of a peculiar nature ?" "It is--very peculiar; and, moreover, I want the good offices of a friend, to enable me the more certainly to accomplish my purposes." "Come! sit down and explain yourself," said Williams.
"Haven't a moment to spare.

The boat goes in half an hour." "What boat ?" "The New Haven boat.

So come, go along with me to the slip, and we'll talk the matter over by the way." "I'm all attention," said Williams, as the two young men stepped forth upon the pavement.
"Well, you must know," began Lawson, "that I have a first rate love affair on my hands." "You!" "Now don't smile; but hear me." "Go on--I'm all attention." "You know old Everett ?" "Thomas Everett, the silk importer ?" "The same." "I know something about him." "You know, I presume, that he has a pretty fair looking daughter ?" "And I know," replied Williams, "that when 'pretty fair looking' is said, pretty much all is said in her favor." "Not by a great deal," was the decided answer of Lawson.
"Pray what is there beyond this that a man can call attractive ?" "Her father's money." "I didn't think of that." "Didn't you ?" "No.

But it would take the saving influence of a pretty large sum to give her a marriageable merit in my eyes." "Gold hides a multitude of defects, you know, Fred." "It does; but it has to be heaped up very high to cover a wife's defects, if they be as radical as those in Caroline Everett.