BookRix

I Have Been, Am Now, And Shall Always Be, A Bashful Man. I Have Been
Told That I Am The Only Bashful Man In The World. How That Is I Can
Not Say, But Should Not Be Sorry To Believe That It Is So, For I Am Of
Too Generous A Nature To Desire Any Other Mortal To Suffer The Mishaps
Which Have Come To Me From This Distressing Complaint. A Person Can
Have Smallpox, Scarlet Fever, And Measles But Once Each. He Can Even
Become So Inoculated With The Poison Of Bees And Mosquitoes As To Make
Their Stings Harmless; And He Can Gradually Accustom, Himself To The
Use Of Arsenic Until He Can Take 444 Grains Safely; But For
Bashfulness--Like Mine--There Is No First And Only Attack, No Becoming
Hardened To The Thousand Petty Stings, No Saturation Of One's Being
With The Poison Until It Loses Its Power.