I decline to be a hypocrite about it; that's all.

Now, suppose I have certain ideas or ideals which I have chosen for the regulation of my own conduct in life.

Suppose some friend of mine has a relative with ideals directly the opposite of mine, and my friend believes more in the relative's ideals than in mine: Do you think I ought to give up my own just to please a person who's taken up ideals that I really despise ?" "No, dear; of course people can't give up their ideals; but I don't see what this has to do with dear little Lucy and--" "I didn't say it had anything to do with them," he interrupted.

"I was merely putting a case to show how a person would be justified in being a friend of one member of a family, and feeling anything but friendly toward another.

I don't say, though, that I feel unfriendly to Mr.
Morgan.