The precautions of nervous people re infectious, and persons of a like temperament are pretty sure, after a time, to imitate them.
In my time first cousins did not meet like strangers. But we are learning modesty from the Americans, and old English ways are too gross for us.
Uncle Silas
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In my time first cousins did not meet like strangers. But we are learning modesty from the Americans, and old English ways are too gross for us.
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