The things we do!

" Brandon understood her
hint--that the preaching was over,--and taking it for his dismissal,
playfully lifted his hands in imitation of the old Bishop of
Canterbury, and murmured the first line of the Latin benediction. Then
they both laughed and courtesied, and Brandon walked away.


_CHAPTER IV_
_A Lesson in Dancing_

I laughed heartily when Jane told me of the tilt between Brandon and
Princess Mary, the latter of whom was in the habit of saying unkind
things and being thanked for them.
Brandon was the wrong man to say them to, as Mary learned. He was not
hot-tempered; in fact, just the reverse, but he was the last man to
brook an affront, and the quickest to resent, in a cool-headed,
dangerous way, an intentional offense.
He respected himself and made others do the same, or seem to do so, at
least. He had no vanity--which is but an inordinate desire for those
qualities that bring self-respect, and often the result of conscious
demerit--but he knew himself, and knew that he was entitled to his own
good opinion.


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