The things we do!

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"As to knowing right and wrong," replied Brandon, "I think I can give
you a rule which, although it may not cover the whole ground, is
excellent for every-day use. It is this: Whatever makes others unhappy
is wrong; whatever makes the world happier is good. As to how we are
always to do this, I can not tell you. One has to learn that by
trying. We can but try, and if we fail altogether, there is still
virtue in every futile effort toward the right."
Mary bent her head as she walked along in thought.
"What you have said is the only approach to a rule for knowing and
doing the right I have ever heard. Now what do you think of me as a
flatterer? But it will do no good; the bad is in me too strong; it
always does itself before I can apply any rule, or even realize what
is coming." And again she shook her head with a bewitching little look
of trouble.
"Pardon me, your highness; but there is no bad _in_ you. It has been
put _on_ you by others, and is all on the outside; there is none of it
in your heart at all.


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