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Updated: May 29, 2025
The irony of his tone belied the suave correctitude of his words. I detested him more and more. More and more did I realise that the dying eumoirist is capable of petty human passions. My vanity was being sacrified.
There could be no mistake about it, it was the man himself who had fallen: that single and minute expression of the popular will had passed for ever from view; and the smooth and equable hum of the unseen millions below went steadily on. Fleeing from the sight still registered upon his brain the King rang for his secretary. A figure of correctitude entered.
But though she spoke thus gracelessly of an important State function she attended it herself with grace, and behaved well. The Princess Charlotte had learned many things alien to her nature; but she had never learned that correctitude of deportment which is supposed to accompany all those born in the regal purple from the cradle to the grave.
"But what," cried the King, astonished, "have a widow and children to do with the Trades Unions?" "The man was working against orders, your Majesty." "But at somebody's orders, I suppose? Anyway, it was for the Government." "Oh no, sir!" Correctitude protested against so dangerous an implication. "But surely! Wasn't he there at the orders of the Board of Works?"
Choice that is not willed is not choice at all; goodness by compulsion is not goodness, but merely correctitude the behaviour of a skilfully-devised mechanism, but possessing no moral quality whatever.
But it is doubtful whether any strategic correctitude could have saved the Russian armies from the effects of German superior armaments. The Germans were playing for high stakes, nothing less than the destruction of Russia's offensive capacity; but they were justified in their game by the cards they held in their hand.
But how much happier they both would have been on a bleak mountain-side eating stew out of a pot! Even champagne and old brandy failed to exercise mellowing influences. The twain were petrified in their own awful correctitude.
"I will be as calm as you like," she said, "I will behave with the utmost correctitude or whatever you call it, if you if they the soldiers the officer will let me see him as you promised up to the last, the very last. But by God if there is a God if you or they prevent me, I'll "
He armed himself with a cold correctitude of politeness, and lowered the social temperature instead of raising it.
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