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Updated: May 16, 2025
The quiet assurance of this self-announced chieftain carried conviction that made argument idle and above all else the Thorntons needed an unchallengeable leader. "Afore God," he murmured, "I believes ye're a man!" Then after a pause he added: "But nobody don't know ye well enough an' afore a man kin be trusted ter give orders he's got ter prove hisself." Parish Thornton laughed.
I'm just crazy about that man! I met him abroad. And so you're really his daughter! I certainly am glad to meet you! Now, that I think, of it, I believe he did tell me the other day that you were coming!" Arethusa smiled all over, showing every dimple; she felt at home immediately with any friend of her father's, self-announced though he might be.
There were among the supporters of the consul those who realized what he himself could not: his military incompetence and the terrible necessity that, at such a juncture, there should be at least one soldier-consul. Varro had won on his merits as self-announced, on the strength of his own arraignment of his adversaries' shortcomings.
There was reasonable ground for doubt and caution; the artistic groups that foregathered at the little restaurant contained so many young women with short hair and so many young men with long hair, who supposed themselves to be abnormally gifted in the domain of music, poetry, painting, or stagecraft, with little or nothing to support the supposition, that a self-announced genius of any sort in their midst was inevitably suspect.
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