"And do you doubt the warmth of my heart?"
"I didn't say so."
"But am I not to infer that from what you do say?"
"I would not like to say that your heart was not warm, Lawrence; but I will remark, that your very cool heads are apt to chill the blood so much that the heart cannot restore it to a healthy temperature."
"As to that, I prefer a cool head, rather than a heart so warm as to soften the brains," replied Dunbar. "I go for cool heads, you know."
"And I for warm hearts," replied Hudson.
"Which makes the difference between us. A few years will show which is best. I will just say, however, in passing, as we happen to be on the subject and speaking a little freely, that I think your defect lies just where you have indicated it. Your feelings are too generous. Your heart is too warm. You think too much of others and too little of yourself. This will not do, if you expect to rise in the world. All these amiable weaknesses must be laid aside as hindrances."
"If that is the price of elevation in this world, I do not wish to rise," said Hudson.
"It is, you may depend upon it," his friend replied.
"A position that I must doubt."