Everything fits. So
bear yourself toward your future partner for life that when you enter
the quarry of your brain for her information, you also enter this quarry
of Truth. The stones you now cut out will stand as the buttresses of the
walls!
HOW SHOCKING IF THEY ARE LIES!
Tell her, when you tell her anything at all, the exact truth. Be very
careful about this. Tell her particularly about your money affairs. Your
happiness depends more on food and clothes than you are now able to
understand. But if you put in solid blocks of truth for the basement,
the finer developments of your life will join on with precision and
effect. I know a young man who went in debt for a fine span of horses
and wagon. His bride supposed they were his own, and he "let her
suppose."
A WHOLE AFTERLIFE
of the veriest toil and the most honorable career never wholly expunged
the blame which attached to him in both her mind and the minds of her
people. It was so foolish in him! One little speech, and long years of
bitter pride-wounding would have been averted. The young woman would
have married him, just as quickly, for it is easy to make terms before
marriage in this country.
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