Tophronius, a wise teacher, would not allow
even his own grown-up sons and daughters to associate with those whose conduct
was not pure and upright. "Dear father," said the gentle Eulalia to
him one day, when he forbid her, in company with her brother, to visit the
volatile Lucinda, "dear father, you must think us very childish, if you
imagine that we should be exposed to danger by it." The father took in
silence a dead coal from the hearth, and reached it to his daughter, "It
will not burn you, my child, take it." Eulalia did so, and behold! her delicate
white hand was soiled and blackened, and as it chanced her white dress also. "We
cannot be too careful in handling coals," said Eulalia, in vexation.
"Yes truly," said her father; "you see my child that coals, even
if they do not burn blacken. So it is with the company of the vicious.
Saturday, January 06, 2018
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