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She gasped, unable to speak, her lips rotund and pursed, and he went on with more assertiveness. "They turn out just as good as any marriages there is," said he. "I've knowed plenty of 'em. There's three in this valley although they don't say much about it now. I know how they got acquainted, all right." "And you desire me to aid you in your endeavor to entr-r-r-ap some foolish woman?"
He had meant to give a tirade against Confirmation, against the neglect of music, against rectors, with perhaps a back-thrust at the Bench of Bishops itself. But he had done none of these things, because neither pride nor reserve nor assertiveness were possible in John Willis's company.
This may be gathered, indeed, from the tenor of his remarks on the subject of his personal value to the Army, that I have recorded at the beginning of this book. What people of slower mind and narrower views may mistake for pride, in his case, I am sure, is but the impatient and unconscious assertiveness of superior power, based upon vision and accumulated knowledge.
Their primitive docility, their politeness, their marriage customs, their universal adoption of Chinese thoughts, language, and literature, and now, in recent times, their rejection of the Chinese philosophy and science, their assertiveness in Korea and China and their aggressive attitude toward the whole world all these multitudinous changes and complete reversals of ideals and customs, point to the fact that the former characteristics of their civilization were not "impersonal," but communal, and that they rested on social development rather than on inherent nature or on deficient mental differentiation.
"Shall we smoke here," said Miss Livingstone, "or in the drawing-room?" "Oh, do you want to? Are you quite sure you like it? Please don't on my account you really mustn't. Suppose it should make you ill?" If Hilda felt any tinge of amusement she kept it out of her face. Nothing was there but cheerful concern. "It won't make me ill." Alicia lifted her chin with delicate assertiveness.
There was nothing of assertiveness or truculence in this steady movement by which Liberal policy and outlook was given a new orientation, Quebec replacing Ontario as the determinant. Students of politics can trace the changing influence through the fifteen years of Liberal rule, in legislation, in appointments and in administrative policies. One or two illustrations might be noted.
"Shall we smoke here," said Miss Livingstone, "or in the drawing-room?" "Oh, do you want to? Are you quite sure you like it? Please don't on my account you really mustn't. Suppose it should mike you ill?" If Hilda felt any tinge of amusement she kept it out of her face. Nothing was there but cheerful concern. "It won't make me ill." Alicia lifted her chin with delicate assertiveness.
The black patch once more covered his eye with defiant assertiveness. "They tell me you are Baldos, a goat-hunter," said Baron Dangloss, eyeing him keenly. "Yes." "And you were hurt in defending one who is of much consequence in Graustark. Sit down, my good fellow." Baldos' eyes gleamed coldly for an instant. Then he sank into a chair.
One attains by this method indefinite assertiveness, but not certainty. Newman lived in some seclusion in the Oratory of St. Philip Neri in Birmingham for many years. A few distinguished men, and a number of his followers, in all not more than a hundred and fifty, went over to the Roman Church after him. The defection was never so great as, in the first shock, it was supposed that it would be.
This father was a man of exceptional energy who had wrought miracles financially, and was, without question, master in his thoroughly organized factory. He dominated his surroundings. Where he willed to lead whether in business circles, in the vestry, in his own home the strength of his intellect, the force of his purpose and his quiet but tangible assertiveness were felt.
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