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Updated: May 7, 2025
Those letters, although written to a man in whose heart romance must long ago have been dead, showed how complex was her character, how fervent, enthusiastic and self-forgetting her love.
That child's eyes and voice, and his expression, which exceeded in sweetness that of any of the angels I had ever imagined, that child could coax a man to do more self-forgetting deeds than the shortening of his precious sleeping-hours amounted to. In fact, he was fast divesting me of my rightful sleepiness, so I kissed him and said:
Meanwhile Pakenham was making ready with every resource known to picked troops, who had charged unshaken through the slaughter of Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, and San Sebastian, and who were about to justify once more the tribute to the British soldier: "Give him a plain, unconditional order go and do that and he will do it with a cool, self-forgetting pertinacity that can scarcely be too much admired."
Thus was one more added to the long list of self-forgetting souls whose creed has been, 'It is fitting that one should suffer for the people. It was the world-old heroism of vicarious sacrifice.
Composed and cheerful in the prospect of his approaching rest, and absolutely without solicitude for herself, the wife was everything to him till the last moment; and when he was gone, the anxieties of the self-forgetting woman were over. She attended his funeral, and afterwards chose to fill her accustomed place among the guests who filled the house.
She loved like a woman, offering herself wholly up; self-forgetting; living wholly and solely for him who was her life; regardless if she herself perished; that is to say she really loved.
Thus was one more added to the long list of self-forgetting souls whose creed has been, 'It is fitting that one should suffer for the people. It was the world-old heroism of vicarious sacrifice.
To live carelessly-divine, duty-doing, fearless, loving, self-forgetting lives is not that more than to know both good and evil lives in which the good, like Aaron's rod, has swallowed up the evil, and turned it into good? For pain and hunger are evils j but if faith in God swallows them up, do they not so turn into good? I say they do.
Since then, Milly had learnt a good deal more of that long, long lesson, which we go on learning, big people and little people, all our lives the lesson of self-forgetting of how love brings joy, and to be selfish is to be sad; and her birthday seemed to bring back to her all that she had been learning. "Dear little woman," said Mrs.
However, I've forgotten to tell you that Polly was as open and frank as the daylight, at once torrid and constant in her affections, brave, self-forgetting as well as self-willed; and that though she did have a tongue just the least bit saucy, she used it valiantly in the defence of others.
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