Katie. Why are you so suspicious and misanthropical?
There is your friend Mr. Hardy again; what do you say to him?"

"Well, I think you may have hit on an exception. But I maintain
the rule."

"You look as if I ought to object. But I sha'n't. It is no
business of mine if you choose to believe any such disagreeable
 about your fellow-creatures."

"I don't believe anything worse about them than I do about
myself. I know that I can't do it."

"Well, I am very sorry for you."

"But I don't think I am any worse than my neighbours."

"I don't suppose you do. Who are your neighbors?"

"Shall I include you in the number?"

"Oh, by all means, if you like."

"But I may not mean that you are like the rest. The man who fell
among thieves, you know, had one good neighbor."

"Now, Cousin Tom," she said, looking up with sparkling eyes, "I
can't return the compliment. You meant to make me feel that I
_was_ like the rest--at least like what you