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Show ZUpntatiao. Reputation is the outer garment- of character. char-acter. Reputation often conceals the character; char-acter; yet, sooner or later, the character's form will show itself in or through the garment gar-ment which it wears. An oM English ballad tells of a nmgic fxment brought bo ting Arthur's court, which could be worn enly by a person of rif bt and honorable life. lYom eontact with any otnsr wearer tha stramre fabric shrunk away, refustajr to do tta office of oorerlng the person. Ivot unprofltably mlrht wo fancy ourseiTes subjected to similar simi-lar ordeals. That if the truth of our language lan-guage could be tested, eo that words insincerely insin-cerely written by us should vanish from our peg; or if our roice, in its too much protesting, protest-ing, were 60 become inaudible t Would not the eoixfuon of Zing Arthur's circle be re-' peated in the society of today f Such HabOily to publlo conviction would render Many s person more heedful of thought and word than be now supposes himself to be; ye even e things are, disclosures like these are con-I con-I stastly being made. A Madly seeming not shows itself void of the spirit It professes, the assurance rf fee lips is denied by an inflection of the voice, end the tenor of th inner life is by manifold signs laid open to the keen observer. There U no lack of ts whereby ear red character la revealed to others, thoafh we may be all unconscious when or how the revelation is effected. ef-fected. And so It is that gradually eur reputation repu-tation is adapttrf its ferm to tlie character beneath ib. Snadagf Sefctsot Thaoa, |