Perhaps the less regard we pay to its promptings, the better." "I think so." "It is rather awkward to go to a person and ask why you have been treated coldly." "I know it is.

But in a choice of evils, is it not always wisest to choose the least ?" "But is any one's bad opinion of you, if it be not correctly formed, an evil ?" "Certainly it is." "I don't know.

I have a kind of independence about me which says, 'Let people think what they please, so you are conscious of no wrong.'" "Indifference to the world's good or bad opinion is all very well," replied the husband, "if the world will misjudge us.

Still, as any thing that prejudices the minds of people against us, tends to destroy our usefulness, it is our duty to take all proper care of our reputations, even to the sacrifice of a little feeling in doing so." Thus argued with by her husband, Mrs.Comegys, after turning the matter over in her mind, finally concluded to go and see Mrs.
Markle.

It was a pretty hard trial for her, but urged on by a sense of right, she called upon her two or three days after having been treated so coldly.