Artificial budding and grafting do not enter into the scope of this paper.

But the remorseless materialism of the daynot the philosophic materialism of the few, but the religious materialism of the manycrushes out all the delicate buddings forth of the childish thought, and bandages the eyes that might otherwise see.

Wherever the Countess (as we must now call her) went on her Italian tour she drew men to her feet by the magnetism of her beauty, who would have paid no homage to her as chère amie of a King; for she was now in the early thirties, in the full bloom of the loveliness that had its obscure budding in the Potsdam barrack-rooms.

I love to cleave to the good, and to hold out a helping hand to encourage the tender budding of grace, and for the good to overcome the evil.