The things we do!

"I have a mind to see," she returned, laughing and throwing her head
back, as she looked up at him out of the corner of her lustrous eyes.
"But I will pay you a better compliment. I positively thank you for
the rebuke. I do many things like that, for which I am always sorry.
Oh! you don't know how difficult it is to be a good princess." And she
shook her head, with a gathering of little trouble-wrinkles in her
forehead, as much as to say, "There is no getting away from it,
though." Then she breathed a soft little sigh of tribulation as they
walked on.
"I know it must be a task to be good when everybody flatters even
one's shortcomings," said Brandon, and then continued in a way that, I
am free to confess, was something priggish: "It is almost impossible
for us to see our own faults, even when others are kind enough to
point them out, for they are right ugly things and unpleasant to look
upon. But lacking those outside monitors, one must all the more
cultivate the habit of constant inlooking and self-examination.


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