has set. One feels that it is absolutely necessary to forget our own inclinations, our personal notions, and to guide souls, not by our own way—the way we ourselves go—but by the particular way that Jesus wishes to lead them.
HIST. D'UNE AME, CH. X
When very young, and staying with
my aunt, a book was given to me to read.
In one of the stories I saw that the
mistress of a school was much praised
because she knew how to get on cleverly
in the world without offending anyone.
This phrase I remarked especially: "She
would say to the one, 'You are not
wrong,' and to the other, 'You are right;"
and while I read I was thinking: "Oh!. . .
I would not have acted thus; we must
always tell the truth." And so I do,
always. Far more difficult it certainly
is, for when told of some little vexatious
occurrence, it would be easy to lay blame
on the absent, and she who complains
would at once be pacified. Yes, but . . .
I do quite the reverse. If I am not
