. The book of months . --^^^^-J^^^^ /////■ . ■« •>*^& •»■/... THE BOOK OF MONTHS whistle to-morrow morning I shall have to raisehis wages. That is another thing, then, I propose not todo by next March, that is to say, to cease trans-gressing against the supreme and perfect law ofkindness and gentleness. I do not mean that Iwill have any sliding down the banisters, for Iwill not; but, on the other hand, I will not havemyself, especially in little things, behaving likea cross-grained fiend. I could have stopped thebanister-business without that; while, on theother hand, it would have been inf


. The book of months . --^^^^-J^^^^ /////■ . ■« •>*^& •»■/... THE BOOK OF MONTHS whistle to-morrow morning I shall have to raisehis wages. That is another thing, then, I propose not todo by next March, that is to say, to cease trans-gressing against the supreme and perfect law ofkindness and gentleness. I do not mean that Iwill have any sliding down the banisters, for Iwill not; but, on the other hand, I will not havemyself, especially in little things, behaving likea cross-grained fiend. I could have stopped thebanister-business without that; while, on theother hand, it would have been infinitely bet-ter all round that he should have continued toslide down the banisters from morn till evethan that I should have wished and intended(and succeeded therein) to spoil a childs hap-piness if only for a morning, though it wasin consequence of a direct act of disobedi-ence, which I am perfectly right in this is the supreme and perfect law ofkindness. 278 r .V


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