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Updated: May 16, 2025
In those words "reasonable and practical" is the Chinese Wall of America, that narrow boundary which contracts our vision to the moment, cuts us off from the culture of the world, and makes us such provincial, unimaginative blunderers over our own problems.
"Get over here in front of me," urged Dick, "and I'll show you just how I can free you. Fred Ripley, like other blunderers, is likely to overlook a few things." It was not cold in the cook shack, for there was still some fire going in the stove. The embers also threw a slight amount of illumination into the room.
We have both been blunderers, Voban, blunderers, he say; 'things have gone wrong with us. We have lost all. There is little time. 'Tell me one thing, he go on: 'Is Mademoiselle Duvarney safe do you know? I tell him yes, and he smile, and take from his pocket something, and lay it against his lips, and then put it back in his breast. "'You are not afraid to die, Voban? he ask. I answer no.
If I make up my mind that a thing must be done I resolve to do it thoroughly and to do it well. I despise blunderers and women who are afraid of what they do. I despise those who give themselves and others away. I cared for you. I saw you needed me and I gave myself to you. I am not sorry I did it, not a bit sorry. I had counted the cost before I did it." "Counted the cost? But what cost is there?
It was the story told whenever Banks, Sturgis, Butler, or one of a host of similar smaller failures were trusted with commands. It was a senseless waste of the lives of private soldiers, and the property of the United States by pretentious blunderers, who, in some inscrutable manner, had attained to responsible commands.
Army men, like the public, were suspicious of the enemy's apparent contentment with this line, for they reasoned it presaged further landings to the north. General Thario's jubilation contrasted with the common gloom. "At last the blunderers have given me active duty. I have a brigade in the Third Army finest of all.
You never heard one of those incorrigible blunderers scold each other; on the contrary, they only laughed when they threw away the game, with four by honours in their hands. The utmost that was ever said was a "Well, Harry, that was the oddest trump of yours. Ho, ho, ho!" or a "Bless me, Hazeldean why, they made three tricks in clubs, and you had the ace in your hand all the time! Ha, ha, ha!"
But avoid calling us ugly names; we may be stubborn and we may be blunderers, but we love you more than aught else in the world, and once you have won your partnership we shall all be welcoming you. I urge you not to use ugly names about anyone.
From remorse for smashing his guest and his automobile he could pass by what was for him the most imperceptible of transitions to remorse for every accident that has ever happened through the error of an automobilist since automobiles began. All that long succession of blunderers became Mr. Britling. Or rather Mr. Britling became all that vast succession of blunderers.
'Jory, the King of Blunderers, declared Sandoz, shaking hands with the new comer. 'Why? What? Is Mahoudeau interested in her? I didn't know, resumed Jory, when he had at length grasped the situation. 'Well, well, what does it matter? When everything's said, they are all irresistible. 'As for you, the sculptor rejoined, 'I can see you have tumbled on your lady-love's finger-nails again.
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