Melchior's Dream, Brothers of Pity, and Other Tales (Paperback)

Melchior's Dream, Brothers of Pity, and Other Tales Book Description

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1899 Original Publisher: Little, Brown Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / General Literary Collections / Letters Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / Children's Literature Self-Help / General Self-Help / Personal Growth / General Social Science / Children's Studies Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: A BAD HABIT. CHAPTER I. " Oh how much more doth beauty beauteous seem By that sweet ornament which truth doth give I The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem For that sweet odor which doth in it live." Shakespeare. MY godmother, Lady Elizabeth, used to say, " Most things are matters of habit, -- good habits and bad habits." And she generally added, " Your bad habit, Selina, is a habit of grumbling." I was always accustomed to seeing great respect paid to anything my godmother said or did. In the first place, she was what Mrs. Arthur James Johnson called "a fine lady," and what the maids called " a real lady." She was an old friend and I think a relative of my father, who had married a little below his own rank, -- my mother being the daughter of a rich manufacturer. My father had died before I can remember things, and Joseph and I lived with our mother and her friends. At least we were with our mother when she could bear the noise; and for the rest of our time, when we were tired of playing games together, we sat with the maids. " That is where you learned your little toss and your trick of grumbling, my dear," my godmother said, planting her gold eye-glasses on her high nose; " and that is why your mouth is growing out of shape, and your forehead getting puckered, and your chin poke...

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