The pettier ones must take care of themselves, I have not time enough to attend to them, and God will not, it may be, require them of me."

Absolutely and solely trusted, assured that her company was eagerly sought, and at least as deeply valued as evercompelled by the ideas of her race to accept the situation as natural and right, and wholly incapable of the pettier and meaner forms of jealousyEveena was fully content and happy in her relations with me.

Let us refuse to accept as moral any political leader who should allow his conduct in relation to great issues to be determined by egoistic passion, and boldly say that he would be less immoral even though he were as lax in his personal habits as Sir Robert Walpole, if at the same time his sense of the public welfare were supreme in his mind, quelling all pettier impulses beneath a magnanimous impartiality.

Pettier than an insect, and more obstinate than a mule, he had also the superior, sleek humility of a "chosen one."

And he ends by saying: Nature fits all her children with something to do; He who would write and can't write, can surely review, Can set up a small booth as critic and sell us his Petty conceit and his pettier jealousies.

" "Let us refuse to accept as moral," says George Eliot, "any political leader who should allow his conduct in relation to great issues to be determined by egoistic passion, and boldly say that he would be less immoral even though he were as lax in his personal habits as Sir Robert Walpole, if at the same time his sense of the public welfare were supreme in his mind, quelling all pettier impulses beneath a magnanimous impartiality."

With regard to the Somnauth gates, a pettier piece of hypercriticism, and a more palpable exhibition of hypocrisy, were never witnessed on a public question.

With a frontispiece by Emile Bernard and decorations by Rene Pettier.

With a frontispiece by Emile Bernard and decorations by Rene Pettier.

His hatred of heresy led him not to blacken the character of heretics, nor to descend to the vulgar abuse used by pettier priests.