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Among those "nobler loves and nobler cares" there is excitement without reaction, there is an unwearied and impersonal joy a joy which can only be held cheap because it is so abundant, and can only disappoint us through our own incapacity to contain it. These delights of study and of solitude Wordsworth enjoyed to the full.

I mustn't forget to see that he writes that letter to Judson. You're too busy, I suppose, to come on to our committee?" She spoke in the most impersonal manner. "I may be out of town," Ralph replied, with equal distance of manner. "Our executive meets every week, of course," she observed. "But some of our members don't come more than once a month.

It was the war-cry of the Yellow Knives as they fired, and ran, and clambered up the ladders, The sights and sounds were clean-cut, distinct, intensely thrilling but impersonal, like the shifting scenes of a photo-play. She glanced about for MacNair. Her eyes travelled swiftly from face to swarthy face of the men who charged out of the timber.

It was impersonal, it was national, it was Imperial. In its little way it was of vast, far-reaching importance. I want you to remember these things in order that you should understand the mental processes, or soul processes, or whatever you like, of Sir Anthony Fenimore. Picture him. The most unheroic little man you can imagine.

Her interest in him was impersonal; when he spoke she was profoundly attentive, only because her mind would have been affected in the same way had she been reading his words instead of listening to them.

He fell a prey to old illusions; that unreasoning fear returned; he was thrown back into the state of terrified egoism which rendered lofty impersonal meditation beyond attainment. That evening when for the first time he went to the Baptist Chapel, the illusion was strong upon him that every man, woman, and child in the congregation had discovered his secret.

'The Father hath put in His own power. We have not to depend upon an impersonal Fate; nor upon a wild whirl of Chance; nor upon 'laws of averages, 'natural laws, 'tendencies' and 'spirit of the age'; nor even on a theistic Providence, but upon a Father who holds all things 'in His own power, and wields all for us. So will not our way be made right?

To such love there is no end, and no chance of weariness or satiety." "I had never thought of it just so," said the girl. "But surely there must be a personal love in the beginning." "I don't know," he responded. "I hadn't thought about that. I'm afraid I'm impersonal by nature." "Yes," she said, "that's what has puzzled me. Don't you love human beings?" "Not as a rule," he confessed.

"Taking days as they go," said Marian in an impersonal manner, "I don't think I ever saw a more busy one than to-day has seemed to be. The Tea Club does seem to make a most awful amount of fluster in a new house." "Yes, it is exacting, isn't it?" said Patty, who caught her cousin's eye in the mirror and looked very demure, though she refused to smile.

Then, slowly, and with the Muscovite indifference which her father, Prince Tchereteff, might have displayed when ordering a spy or a traitor to be shot, she retraced her steps to the house, where all seemed to sleep, murmuring, with cold irony, in a sort of impersonal affirmation, as if she were thinking not of herself, but of another: "Now, I hope that Prince Zilah's fiancee is well guarded!"