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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Little Rivers by Henry van Dyke: demeanour was a rebuke to all rebellious, cowardly, and
discontented thoughts. It was not the striking novelty or
profundity of her commentary on life that made it memorable, it was
simply the truth of what she said and the gentleness with which she
said it. Epigrams are worth little for guidance to the perplexed,
and less for comfort to the wounded. But the plain, homely sayings
which come from a soul that has learned the lesson of patient
courage in the school of real experience, fall upon the wound like
drops of balsam, and like a soothing lotion up on the eyes smarting
and blinded with passion.
She spoke of those who had walked with her long ago in her garden,
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