This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 edition. Excerpt: ... MARRYING A BEAUTY. ON'T do it," said the old gentleman, speaking with unwonted fervor. "Take my advice, and don't do it." The fine ardor which had flushed my soul was chilled. Uncle Marion saw the change. "Beauty is too often a false signal," he added. "If all things were in the first order of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 edition. Excerpt: ... MARRYING A BEAUTY. ON'T do it," said the old gentleman, speaking with unwonted fervor. "Take my advice, and don't do it." The fine ardor which had flushed my soul was chilled. Uncle Marion saw the change. "Beauty is too often a false signal," he added. "If all things were in the first order of creation, beauty would be the outward sign of goodness, but evil has wrought many sad changes in our world, and beauty may not be trusted." "The beauty of Florence Ware may be trusted," I answered, confidently. "There is a very heaven of innocence in her face." "Love is blind, my boy--Love is blind!" said Uncle Marion, with oracular positiveness. "As for beauty, it is only a veil, not a representation." "Cannot a beautiful person be good?" I asked, my tones expressing surprise at the implied negation of his remarks. "All things are possible," he answered, soberly;#"but he who trusts to beauty as the sign of goodness will find himself many, many times bitterly mistaken. Goodness has her signs, but they are not in pure Grecian profiles, nor in white, queenly necks; they are not in brown eyes or pinky cheeks. The face may be lovely as a poet's or painter's dream, while the heart beneath may be full of pride, ambition, selfishness and impurity. I am an old man, George, and from the experience, observation and suffering of many years I warn you against putting faith in beauty, and above all, in the beauty of Florence Ware." I had known my Uncle Marion as a cheerful old man--quiet and reflective for the most part, but cheerful. The ordinary disturbing influences that continually jostle most people's equanimity of mind had scarcely any effect upon him. He lived in a region above their influence. It was not, therefore, without surprise that I observed an...
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