THE TWO COUSINS. ~ 91

 

There is something in the rose
which is lovely. And it is just
so with a good, and kind, and
generous, and sweet-tempered
girl.

But it is the hardest thing
in the world to love a person
that is selfish, and cross, and
peevish, and quarrelsome.

Why, I could love a great
black bear, or a tiger, almost
as easily as I could love some