That little act in another woman of course would have led to a demonstration on my part, but in this girl it seemed so entirely natural and candid that it was a complete bar to undue familiarity.

In truth, I had no such tendency, for the childish act spoke of an innocence and faith that were very sweet to me who all my life had lived among men and women who laughed at those simple virtues.

The simple conditions of life are all that are worth striving for.

They come to us fresh from Nature and from Nature's God.

The complex are but concoctions of man after recipes in the devil's alchemy.