than it is priggish to be rich or well-connected. The priggishness
comes in when you begin to compare yourself with others, and to
draw distinctions. The Pharisee in the parable was a prig; and just
as I have known priggish hunting men, and priggish golfers, and
even priggish card-players, so I have known people who were
priggish about having a low standard of private virtue, because
they disapproved of people whose standard was higher. The only cure
is frankness and simplicity; and one should practise the art of
talking simply and directly among congenial people of what one
admires and believes in.

How I run on! But it is a comfort to write about these things to
some one who will understand; to "cleanse the stuff'd bosom of the
perilous stuff that weighs upon the heart." By the way, how
careless the repetition of "stuff'd" "stuff" is in that line! And
yet it can't be unintentional, I suppose?

I enjoy your letters very much; and I am glad to hear that you are
beginning to "take interest," and are already feeling better. Your
views of the unchangeableness of personality are very surprising;
but I must think them over for a little; I will write about them
before long. Meanwhile, my love to you all.--Ever yours,

T. B.



UPTON,
Feb. 25, 1904.