Page:The Bible of Amiens.djvu/92

62 to it, when they had got it out. Quick and clear in word and act, fearless utterly and restless always; — but idly lawless, or weakly lavish, neither in deed nor word. Their frankness, if you read it as a scholar and a Christian, and not like a modern half-bred, half-brained infidel, knowing no tongue of all the world but in the slang of it, is really opposed, not to Servitude,—but to Shyness! It is to this day the note of the sweetest and Frenchest of French character, that it makes simply perfect Servants. Unwearied in protective friendship, in meekly dextrous omnificence, in latent tutorship;