SINCERE
'In all things showing sincerity.'--Paul to Titus.
Charles Bennett has a delightful drawing of Sincere in Charles Kingsley's
beautiful edition of _The Pilgrim's Progress_. You feel that you could
look all day into those clear eyes. Your eyes would begin to quail
before you had looked long into the fourth shepherd's deep eyes; but
those eyes of his have no cause to quail under yours. This man has
nothing to hide from you. He never had. He loves you, and his love to
you is wholly without dissimulation. He absolutely and unreservedly
means and intends by you and yours all that he has ever said to you and
yours, and much more than he has ever been able to say. The owner of
those deep blue eyes is as true to you when he is among your enemies as
he is true to the truth itself when he is among your friends. Mark also
the unobtrusive strength of his mouth, all suffused over as it is with a
most winning and reassuring sweetness. The fourth shepherd of the
Delectable Mountains is one of the very best of Bennett's excellent
portraits. But Mr.
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