who is not willing to let the hard-working citizen keep his earnings,
but steals upon him in the night and robs him into poverty--how much
less selfish, I say, is he than the brother who steals upon the fair
young life of a pure, good maiden, brands her as the sister of a
disreputable loafer, and leaves her to choose loafers for a husband, or
marry a stranger who may afterward taunt her with her low connection! I
can conceive of no keener spur to the young man of pride and purpose
than to keep this view of things before him, that he may be worthy of
the company of young men who, in turn, will be worthy of the company of
his sister.