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And yet how can we burst in on him and tell him that apparently irrelevant piece of information? We have thought of various ways of breaking it to him, or should we say breaking him to it?
Despite the menace of 'the irrelevant' dotting the lawn immediately outside the windows, the little group on the farther side of the hall still stood there talking in low tones with the sense of intimacy which belongs to a family party. Jean had slipped her arm in her uncle's, and was smiling at Stonor
Then a pleasant society lady, Lady Cicely Waynefleet tells him in an easy conversational undertone a rivulet of speech which ripples while she is mending his coat that he is making a fool of himself, that his wrong is irrelevant, that his vengeance is objectless, that he would be much better if he flung his morbid fancy away for ever; in short, she tells him he is ruining himself for the sake of ruining a total stranger.
The function of the brain then, or of a mental faculty intimately co-operating with the brain is to discriminate, to sift and select, to prolong into present consciousness what is of importance for action and to relegate the irrelevant to partial or total oblivion. From this psychological standpoint ignorance and obliviscence are seen to be achievements of the intellect.
My pertinacious querist stopped, I suppose, when he had got to the end of his list, and apparently spent the rest of the evening in a slow process of digestion; for he would break out, now and then, at the most irrelevant times, with a repetition of one of his former interrogations, which I had to answer again, briefly as I might.
It will be most unwise credulously to swallow the utterances of those refractory people who, resident always abroad, are not well informed upon the real conditions in the peninsula, but, nevertheless, are attempting to mislead their brethren by spreading wild fictions and thus disturbing the peace of the Empire, only to bring on themselves the derision of the Powers for their indulgence in unbridled imagination in seizing upon the watchword 'self-determination of races' which is utterly irrelevant to Chosen, and in committing themselves to thoughtless act and language.
Even the servants of the household, whether old or young, looked back upon her qualities of sympathy with the poor, pity of the destitute, affection for the old, and consideration for the young; and not one of them all was there who did not mourn her loss, and give way to intense grief. But these irrelevant details need not be dilated upon; suffice it to confine ourselves to Pao-yue.
She'll end, as I've told her to her face, by writing books, serious novels, probably, which she'll illuminate with beautiful irrelevant quotations from Browning and Cardinal Newman." "Bother," said Lady Blanchemain. "You're perverse." "Besides," said John, "she's engaged." "Engaged ?" faltered Lady Blanchemain.
You are fond of making capital M's; and sometimes you follow it with a capital A. Then you practise a little upon a D, and perhaps back it up with a G. Of course it is the merest accident that these letters come together. It seems funny to you very. And as a proof that they are made at random, you make a T or an R before them, and some other quite irrelevant letters after it.
Winter's, in order to have her chat with Miss Grant before tea time. Her idea was to ask only for the guest, not for the hostess, and be ready to leave before the hour when extraneous and irrelevant guests might be expected to invade the chaplain's drawing-room.
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