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Updated: June 21, 2025
"Well, what of it?" railed Kate. "Isn't poor Nora permitted to cough, if she is disposed to cough? She's in there doing the room for me. I'm going to try sleeping in there isn't insomnia a fearful thing? But the fussiness of men!" They were in the library over their coffee.
For all great purposes have to be spread over time, have to overcome obstacles, and these must be met with courage and patience. Impatience is fussiness, fretfulness and a prime breeder of neurasthenia. Patience is realistic, and though it may seek perfection it puts up with imperfection as a part of human life.
There were hurried gatherings of committees which sat in private conclaves and then issued manifestos which nobody read. Minor officials were goaded into orgies of fussiness. Major officials, statesmen, escaped when they could, to the comparative calm of suffragette-haunted public meetings in England. A Buckingham Palace Conference set all sorts of people arguing about constitutional precedents.
This antiquated fussiness of the dilettante little nobleman was sickening to her. 'Probably you expect to discover a revolutionary symbol in the lines of the signorina's dress, she said. 'A revolutionary symbol! my dear! my dear! The count reproved his daughter. 'Is not our signorina a pure artist, accomplishing easily three octaves? aha! Three! and he rubbed his hands.
Clothes is well enough in school, and in towns, and at balls, too, but there ain't no sense in them when there ain't no civilization nor other kinds of bothers and fussiness around. "Lions a-comin'! lions! Quick, Mars Tom! Jump for yo' life, Huck!" Oh, and didn't we! We never stopped for clothes, but waltzed up the ladder just so.
But you see he wants, as he himself very truly says, the two stimulants to definite action, poverty and vanity." "Surely there have been great men who were neither poor nor vain?" "I doubt it. But vanity is a ruling motive that takes many forms and many aliases: call it ambition, call it love of fame, still its substance is the same, the desire of applause carried into fussiness of action."
"Well, do you want to wait on her, and read to her, and put up with her fussiness all summer?" "It doesn't matter whether we want to or not. We have to do it. Your father sent for her, and she's here. You can't send her away." "I suppose that's so. But, oh, Patty, how I do dislike her! She's changed so. When I saw her some years ago, she was sweet and gentle, but not so fidgety and self-centred."
Being, however, equally above the other little infirmities of fretfulness and fussiness, he waited calmly and proceeded coolly. "What was the cause of the distress in 1793?" "Ah! that was the puzzle wasn't it, Skinner? We were never so prosperous as that year. The distress came over us like a thunder-storm all in a moment. Nobody knows the exact cause."
But you see he wants, as he himself very truly says, the two stimulants to definite action, poverty and vanity." "Surely there have been great men who were neither poor nor vain?" "I doubt it. But vanity is a ruling motive that takes many forms and many aliases: call it ambition, call it love of fame, still its substance is the same, the desire of applause carried into fussiness of action."
Firm, constant, clever, alert, a little given to fussiness perhaps, but sympathetic and charming, with some claims to genius and some approach to grandeur of soul: so much we may say truly of her inner self.
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