"
"Well?"
"Peter is a practical idealist"
CHAPTER LXI.
LEONORE'S THEORY.
And how well had that "talk-it-over" group at the end of Peters
wedding-day grasped his character? How clearly do we ever gain an
insight into the feelings and motives which induce conduct even in those
whom we best know and love? Each had found something in Peter that no
other had discovered. We speak of rose-colored glasses, and Shakespeare
wrote, "All things are yellow to a jaundiced eye." When we take a bit of
blue glass, and place it with yellow, it becomes green. When we put it
with red, it becomes purple. Yet blue it is all the time. Is not each
person responsible for the tint he seems to produce in others? Can we
ever learn that the thing is blue, and that the green or purple aspect
is only the tinge which we ourselves help to give? Can we ever learn
that we love and are loved entirely as we give ourselves colors which
may harmonize with those about us? That love, wins love; kindness,
kindness; hate, hate.
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