If I should enter into details of the four earlier stages of humanity, and treat in addition of the adult man, I should be obliged to write a philosophical work on the subject, and that might not be entertaining.

I should be obliged to beg your indulgence for a tedious book, and my daughters certainly would not thank me for it; they are very sensitive.

But I must, nevertheless, secretly whisper in your ear that "my daughters, like the daughters of many others, have been carried through these five stages in the most careful and thorough manner." I ought to know that best.

Here you have the answer to many strange questions.
_Cautions._ I warn pianists, and others also, in playing: 1.

Against any showy and unsuitable display.