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Sorry I must break up yer fun, boys, but some o' yuh must come along with me. Duty's duty. I want Sage-brush, anyhow, as I s'pose I can't ask fer Jack Payson." Sage-brush pulled a long face. At any other time he would have jumped at the chance of running to earth the dastardly murderers of his old friend Terrill.
A mighty voice Inexorable duty's stern command, Calls me to light again. Not twice the moon Has filled her orb since to the tomb ye bore My princely spouse, your city's lord, whose arm Against a world of envious foes around Hurled fierce defiance!
It's a chance in a million, and when you win you've got this little State tight in your pocket, and a desk in the millionaire's club at Washington. Well, so long," said Mr. Tooting, "you think that over." "You have, at least, put things in a new and interesting light," said Mr. Crewe. "I will try to decide what my duty is." "Your duty's pretty plain to me," said Mr. Tooting.
So much for them. They have a right to all our gratitude, to all our admiration. They are doing magnificently all that had to be done. But they occupy a place apart in duty's splendid hierarchy. They are the protagonists of direct, material, tangible, undeniable, inevitable duty. This war is their war.
"Rebecca Mary 'n' the angels Are watching o'er," sang on the crooning little voice in Aunt Olivia's ears. The doll in its coffin upstairs; down here Rebecca Mary rocking her empty arms. The two thoughts flashed into Aunt Olivia's mind and welded into one. All her vacillations and Duty's sharp reminders occurred to her clearly.
Both attitudes have a common base; and pleasure for pleasure's sake comes to the same as duty for duty's sake.
"Yes, surely," replied Miss Huntingdon sadly; "I cannot doubt its genuineness." Julia then tossed the letter to her brother and sat down. "And what is it, then," she asked bitterly, and with knitted brows, "that you want me to do?" "I think, dear Julia," said her aunt, "the real question is, What is it your duty to do?" "Oh yes," she cried passionately; "my duty! Duty's a very fine thing.
Old Homer sings his noble lays, The hero goes through dangers; The brave man duty's call obeys, And did so, even in the days When sages yet were strangers But heart and genius now have taught What Locke and what Descartes never thought; By them immediately is shown That which is possible alone. In life avails the right of force.
But Rhoda pleaded, "She is too worn, she is tottering. She cannot endure a word on this; not even of kindness and help." "Then, you," said the farmer, "you tell her she's got a duty's her first duty now. Obedience to her husband! Do you hear? Then, let her hear it. Obedience to her husband! And welcome's the man when he calls on me. He's welcome. My doors are open to him. I thank him.
Discipline, which means the effacement of the individual, does more than break the soldier to unhesitating obedience; it trains him to die for duty's sake, and even the Stonewall Brigade, in the spring of 1862, was not yet thoroughly disciplined. "The lack of competent and energetic officers," writes Jackson's chief of the staff, "was at this time the bane of the service.
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