as anxiety to keep the strict truth, and that only, in all kinds of
conversation.

Thus, she wrote in her journal:--

I was told by ---- he thought my manners had too much of the
courtier in them, which I know to be the case, for my disposition
leads me to hurt no one that I can avoid, and I do sometimes but
just keep to the truth with people, from a natural yielding to them
in such things as please them. I think doing so in moderation is
pleasant and useful in society. It is among the things that
produce the harmony of society; for the truth must not be spoken
out at all times, at least not the whole truth. Perhaps I am
wrong--I do not know if I am--but it will not always do to tell our
minds.... I am one of those who try to serve God and Mammon. Now,
for instance, if I wish to say anything I think right to anyone, I
seldom go straight to the point, but mostly by some softening,
round-about way, which, I fear, is very much from wishing to please
man more than his Maker!

It is evident that Elizabeth Fry dared to be singular; very possibly
only such self-renouncing singularity could have borne such remarkable
fruits of philanthropy. It required some such independent, philosophical
character as hers to strike out a new path for charitable effort.

During the continuance of the Yearly Meeting in London, the home in St.
Mildred's Court was made a house of entertainment for the Friends who
came from all parts of the country. It was a curious sight to see the
older Friends, clad in the quaint costume of that age, as they mingled
with the more fashionably or moderately dressed Quakers. The sightseers