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Crews looks as if he were one of the Don't-Care-a-Damn Brigade ... Dublin's full of them ... but he does care. He has a curiously subtle brain, and I do not know any one so imperturbable as he is. He never loses his temper ... at least I've never seen him lose it ... except, so he says, with stockbrokers and haberdashers and that kind of rubbish.
That accounts for the don't-care-a-damn light-heartedness seen in Australian faces, and for the dominance of care in these faces. I still had everything to learn, and have since learned some of it. And I do not think now that my theory was particularly incorrect.
We feed on novelty and are easily wearied. That's why so many have back-slid who were strong for the Prosecution at first." "Yes, you're right," answered Frank. "We alternate between spasms of Virtue and comfortable inertias of Don't-care-a-Damn! That's San Francisco!" "The Good Gray City," he added after a little silence. "We love it in spite of its faults and upheavals, don't we, Aleta?"
That kind of man isn't much braver when he's plunging at Germans than he is when he's plunging at a motor-omnibus or getting into a 'scrum' at Rugger. He simply doesn't see any difference. It's something to plunge at, and so he plunges. I haven't much faith in the Don't-Care-a-Damn Brigade. They're more anxious to get V. C's than to get victories.
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