An honest girl and boy is one with honour bright.
A looking-glass always shines when it is polished bright.
A pool of water is very beautiful when you can look right down into it and see clear through it—
And so is a boy and girl who has no mud in the eye or in the soul.
It is simply great to be a life on the square, aboveboard, with nothing to conceal; what is called transparent, so that the light shines throughout, with no pretending to be what it is not; no scamping work and trying to get things without paying for them. You can't anyhow! You always get in the end what you pay for.
Did you ever hear some one described as "four square"—standing true, upright, facing everywhere with a clear eye and an undimmed soul?
It is a fine thing to have a life with no spots in it, and one of the very worst spots is to be false and dishonest—
And it always comes home some day—
A wonderful book called "Silas Marner" tells of a young man who stole the money that old Silas had gathered and kept under the boards of his cottage floor.
For many years no one ever knew where it went.