CHAPTER IV.
CHILDREN.
THE MINISTER’S WOOING.
The odd one.
One sometimes sees launched into a family circle a child of so different a nature from all the rest, that it might seem as if, like an aërolite, he had fallen out of another sphere.
OLDTOWN FOLKS.
Child’s intensity.
In childhood the passions move with a simplicity of action unknown to any other period of life, and a child’s hatred and a child’s revenge have an intensity of bitterness entirely unalloyed by moral considerations; and when a child is without an object of affection and feels itself unloved, its whole vigor of being goes into the channels of hate.
Child instinct.
That instinctive sense by which children and dogs learn the discerning of spirits.