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Article UNCLE CHARLES'S STORY. ← Page 4 of 4 Article FRIENDSHIP AND BROTHERHOOD. Page 1 of 3 →
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Uncle Charles's Story.
" ' I do not know anything about that , ' he said , a little hastily ( police officers don ' t always like chaff , why f ) ' But if you Avant to see tbe end of our two friends of the Cafe , read it , that ' s all . The French police have done it very neatly , I must say—very neatly indeed ; and they give good sentences in France . They have each got five years at the Bagne , and police surveillance for ever . The 'Doctor' Avas very ' stout ; ' he is a precious sly old rascalbut Jackmann turned ' soft' ancl wanted to ' squeak' and said
; , , it was all his ' Sa femme mechante . ' He alivays Avas a bit of a cur . ' " ' Have you any command for the ' Little Village . ' he added , as he wished me good-bye . " ' No , ' I said ; ' I shall soon be again enjoying the " SAveet shady side of Pall Mall . "'
" 'Bon voyage !' " Well , I perused the Gazette des Tribunaux that evening , and two more thoroughgoing rapscallions I never read of before , aud a more Avell-deserved sentence was never passed . If it erred , it erred on the side of leniency . Voila ! mon histoire . " " Well , " said Ethel , " is that all 1 What have we to do Avith two ' polissons , ' and the ' police' and the Gazette des Tribunaux ?"
, " My moral ! " says Uncle Charles , loftily —( how fond some men are of moralising !) — " is this : Keep yourselves to yourselves ; do not be too free ancl easy in making acquaintances ; and , above all , do not be too intimate Avith any chance companion of Avhose antecedents you knoAv nothing . " The young ladies '' did not see it . " I can only trust that it Avill be quite different Avith my mdulgent reader .,
Friendship And Brotherhood.
FRIENDSHIP AND BROTHERHOOD .
BY G . SOJtEBg BELLAMY , Author of" The New fShateperiaii Dictionary of Quotations , " and Joint-Author of " Flirtation" ( Comedy ) . '' What need we have any friends , if we should never have need of them ? They were the most needless creatures living , should we ne'er have use for them , and would most resemble sweet instruments hung up in cases that keep their sounds to themselves . "—Timon of Athens , Act i ., se . 2 . "A friend should bear his friend ' s infirmities . "—Julius Ccesar , Act iv ., so . 3 . "We are bom to do benefits . "—Timon of Athens , Act i ., se . 2 .
IT is certain that no body or class of men Avill better understand ancl appreciate the noble words I have quoted above than Freemasons ; but they appeal to all Avith equal force , to every individual , to all classes , to aU nations . I could croAvd these pages Avith quotations from Shakspeare to demonstrate , if need existed , hoAv strongly he felt in the mattei of friendship , IIOAV keenly he appreciated the bond of brotherhood that should exist betAveen man and man , irrespective of race , colour or creed . The inherent selfishness of man , his
pride of birth or wealth or station , his absorption in the daily pursuit of his own wellbeing , and above all , perhapshis overbearing conceitin his o wnbrainpoAvers , and the individual vanity that makes him vieAv Avith such complacency his few good points through a magnifying glass , and his many faults through the wrong end of a telescope , reversing the process when he deals with his neighbour , have combined to someAvbat isolate Mm in the present day from the great virtue of that friendslri p , of which the poet has said , it was "to men and angels only given . " And rightly said—for true friendship is the least selfish of the many loves that exercise the human mind from infancy to age . I say the least selfish , because there is some grain of seMshness in every affection of the human heart—every good action ,
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Uncle Charles's Story.
" ' I do not know anything about that , ' he said , a little hastily ( police officers don ' t always like chaff , why f ) ' But if you Avant to see tbe end of our two friends of the Cafe , read it , that ' s all . The French police have done it very neatly , I must say—very neatly indeed ; and they give good sentences in France . They have each got five years at the Bagne , and police surveillance for ever . The 'Doctor' Avas very ' stout ; ' he is a precious sly old rascalbut Jackmann turned ' soft' ancl wanted to ' squeak' and said
; , , it was all his ' Sa femme mechante . ' He alivays Avas a bit of a cur . ' " ' Have you any command for the ' Little Village . ' he added , as he wished me good-bye . " ' No , ' I said ; ' I shall soon be again enjoying the " SAveet shady side of Pall Mall . "'
" 'Bon voyage !' " Well , I perused the Gazette des Tribunaux that evening , and two more thoroughgoing rapscallions I never read of before , aud a more Avell-deserved sentence was never passed . If it erred , it erred on the side of leniency . Voila ! mon histoire . " " Well , " said Ethel , " is that all 1 What have we to do Avith two ' polissons , ' and the ' police' and the Gazette des Tribunaux ?"
, " My moral ! " says Uncle Charles , loftily —( how fond some men are of moralising !) — " is this : Keep yourselves to yourselves ; do not be too free ancl easy in making acquaintances ; and , above all , do not be too intimate Avith any chance companion of Avhose antecedents you knoAv nothing . " The young ladies '' did not see it . " I can only trust that it Avill be quite different Avith my mdulgent reader .,
Friendship And Brotherhood.
FRIENDSHIP AND BROTHERHOOD .
BY G . SOJtEBg BELLAMY , Author of" The New fShateperiaii Dictionary of Quotations , " and Joint-Author of " Flirtation" ( Comedy ) . '' What need we have any friends , if we should never have need of them ? They were the most needless creatures living , should we ne'er have use for them , and would most resemble sweet instruments hung up in cases that keep their sounds to themselves . "—Timon of Athens , Act i ., se . 2 . "A friend should bear his friend ' s infirmities . "—Julius Ccesar , Act iv ., so . 3 . "We are bom to do benefits . "—Timon of Athens , Act i ., se . 2 .
IT is certain that no body or class of men Avill better understand ancl appreciate the noble words I have quoted above than Freemasons ; but they appeal to all Avith equal force , to every individual , to all classes , to aU nations . I could croAvd these pages Avith quotations from Shakspeare to demonstrate , if need existed , hoAv strongly he felt in the mattei of friendship , IIOAV keenly he appreciated the bond of brotherhood that should exist betAveen man and man , irrespective of race , colour or creed . The inherent selfishness of man , his
pride of birth or wealth or station , his absorption in the daily pursuit of his own wellbeing , and above all , perhapshis overbearing conceitin his o wnbrainpoAvers , and the individual vanity that makes him vieAv Avith such complacency his few good points through a magnifying glass , and his many faults through the wrong end of a telescope , reversing the process when he deals with his neighbour , have combined to someAvbat isolate Mm in the present day from the great virtue of that friendslri p , of which the poet has said , it was "to men and angels only given . " And rightly said—for true friendship is the least selfish of the many loves that exercise the human mind from infancy to age . I say the least selfish , because there is some grain of seMshness in every affection of the human heart—every good action ,