The Nightside of Character
The
Nightside of Character
A Gifted and Honourable
Editor, who by practice of his profession had acquired wealth and distinction,
applied to an Old Friend for the hand of his daughter in marriage. “With all my
heart, and God bless you!” said the Old Friend, grasping him by both
hands. “It is a greater honour than I had dared to hope for.” “I knew what
your answer would be,” replied the Gifted and Honourable Editor. “And
yet,” he added, with a sly smile, “I feel that I ought to give you as much
knowledge of my character as I possess. In this scrap-book is such
testimony relating to my shady side, as I have within the past ten years been
able to cut from the columns of my competitors in the business of elevating
humanity to a higher plane of mind and morals—my ‘loathsome contemporaries.’” Laying
the book on a table, he withdrew in high spirits to make arrangements for the
wedding. Three days later he received the scrap-book from a messenger,
with a note warning him never again to darken his Old Friend’s door.
“See!” the Gifted and Honourable Editor
exclaimed, pointing to that injunction—“I am a painter and grainer!”
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