Clever Hits of the Humorists
Mistaken Vanity
It is told of Père Monsabre, the famous Dominican preacher, that one day, as he was on the way to officiate in the church, a message came to him that a lady wanted to see him. She was worrying about an affair of conscience, she felt that she must see him, she feared that she was given up to vanity. That very morning, she confessed, she had looked in her looking-glass, and yielded to the temptation of thinking herself pretty.
Père Monsabre looked at her and said quietly, “Is that all?”
She confessed that it was.
“Well, my child,” he replied, “you can go away in peace, for to make a mistake is not a sin.”