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"Then roun' wi' ye!" shouted the Man of Peace; and once more seizing the Laird by the arm, he turned him swiftly round this time, to the right and at the third turn the light vanished, and Brockburn and the Man of Peace were once more alone together in the mist. "Aweel, Brockburn," said the Man of Peace, "I'll alloo ye're candid, and have a convincible mind.
"The same inconvincible optimist?" said I. "Yes. Thank heaven. And you?" I paused. There came a self-revelatory flash. "At the present moment," I said, "I'm a perfectly convincible vacuist." We left the tram and the main thoroughfare, and turned into frowsy streets, peopled with frowsy men and women and raucous with the bickering play of frowsy children. It was still daylight.
"Ah, my dear Grey," said Penhallow, "this is rather of the nature of a threat never a very digestible thing for me, at least and I am not very convincible. We will discuss it over our wine or a cigar." He turned to his wife, "Any news of Leila, Ann?" "Yes, I had a letter to-day," she returned, somewhat relieved. "She seems to be better satisfied."
Daddy's so much more convincible. But it's no use now; Daddy never goes back on Aunt Julia." Patricia slipped from the fence. "I rather think you and I'd better go down to the back meadow to talk things over; it's getting pretty near sewing-time." Out in the meadow, flat on her back in the long grass, Patricia set herself to the task of solving this perplexing situation.
The complexity is too subtle, too varied; the values are changing utterly with each lesion of vitality; it has begun to appear that we can learn nothing from the past with which to face the future so we cease to be impulsive, convincible men, interested in what is ethically true by fine margins, we substitute rules of conduct for ideas of integrity, we value safety above romance, we become, quite unconsciously, pragmatic.
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