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On the contrary, he was extremely angry, with the confused impotent anger of one who finds himself unreasonably but efficiently frustrated. He was trapped by the illogicality of human life. The obstacles in the way of his desire seemed to him purely artificial, and yet he could see no way of removing them. Mary's words, the tone of her voice even, angered him, for she would not help him.
It hurt. Woman-like, she set more value on a few pleasant words of farewell over a breakfast-table and a warm handshake than on a defence from assault at the risk of a man's life. The seeming illogicality of woman is of course a mere surface illusion. It hides a train of reasoning very different to a man's.
I can never insist enough, my dear Cyril, upon the illogicality of American life. You know what the plutocratic principle is, and what the plutocratic civilization should logically be. But the plutocratic civilization is much better than it should logically be, bad as it is; for the personal equation constantly modifies it, and renders it far less dreadful than you would reasonably expect.
If there were an illogicality in the essence of a treaty where the executive the Queen was the common sovereign of both realms, the difficulty could be discarded as a pedantry, in a constitutional community where the sovereign acts through responsible advisers.
Besides," she added, with an irrelevance which always amuses her husband, though I should be alarmed by it for her sanity if I did not find it so characteristic of women here, who seem to be mentally characterized by the illogicality of the civilization, "they're not half so good as the foreign servants.
I knew now why grass had always seemed to me as queer as the green beard of a giant, and why I could feel homesick at home. The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it is a reasonable one. The commonest kind of trouble is that it is nearly reasonable, but not quite. Life is not an illogicality; yet it is a trap for logicians.
But, by a process which nobody can explain, in the union the art of cooking in hotels got mislaid." "Well," she said, with winning illogicality, "you've got me." "If you could only eat the breakfasts for me, as you can see the Monument for me!" "Dear, I could eat the Monument for you, if it would do you any good."
The English illogicality which hung obstinately round even such gifted men as Medland and le jeune Norburn, so oppressed François who could not see why, if you might hint at cudgels in the background, you should not use them that, on his way to his next committee, he turned into a tavern to refresh his spirit.
"Well, you asked, you know," retorted Dick, with the air of a man who suffers under the perpetual illogicality of woman. "I confess to being very much alarmed," said Mr. Kilshaw, "and I think Capital generally shares the feeling." "If I thought he could last, I should share it myself," said Sir Robert Perry. "He may easily last long enough to half ruin my business.
With a confessed but none the less pathetic illogicality, they feel as though Death had not gone to work impartially, but had selected for his prey the noblest and the best. One of these survivors, in a paper now before me, quotes from Das Siegesfest the line "Ja, der Krieg verschlingt die Besten!" and then remarks: "Still, when Schiller says:
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