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Updated: May 26, 2025
One could see the will dominating the body, and the half-helpless hands lying on the coverlet presented a striking contrast to the inextinguishable fire of the eye. Maxine sat down on the chair by the bed. She did not attempt to stroke the hand near her, and she smothered whatever emotion she felt, for she knew the man who had returned.
Does he really overhear it that huge, dumb, half-helpless, half-defiant prayer going up past him, out of the eager, hoarse cities, out of the slow, patient fields, to God? Does he overhear it, I wonder? What does he make out that we are like? I should think it would sound like music to him. I do not see how a President could help growing a little like a poet down in his heart as he listens.
It spoke of the kind of personal issue that touched her most nearly; of the choice between objects, subjects, contacts what might she call them? of a thin and those of a rich association; of a lonely, studious life in a lovely land; of an old sorrow that sometimes ached to-day; of a feeling of pride that was perhaps exaggerated, but that had an element of nobleness; of a care for beauty and perfection so natural and so cultivated together that the career appeared to stretch beneath it in the disposed vistas and with the ranges of steps and terraces and fountains of a formal Italian garden allowing only for arid places freshened by the natural dews of a quaint half-anxious, half-helpless fatherhood.
When she had thus aided her half-helpless companions, Betty returned the knife to its owner, who received it with a dignified inclination of the head.
It seemed almost cruel for that young creature to be burdened with the care of those three half-helpless people, and Guy shuddered just as he usually did when he associated Maddy with them, but when he listened while she told him of all the castles she had built, and in every one of which there was a place for "our folks," as she termed them, it was more in the form of a blessing than a caress that his hand rested on her shining hair.
What frightful wounds they make sometimes! what mangled butchery in their track! See some poor fellow stretched on the operating-table, stripped for the patching or trimming which half-helpless surgery can supply.
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