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He could imagine poor little Maggie saying a thing like that, not knowing what she said. If it had been poor little Maggie he could have drawn her to him and comforted her, and reasoned with her till he had made her see the senselessness of her idea. Maggie would have listened to reason his reason. Anne never would. She had been cold and slow, and implacably deliberate.
Tell them of their sons that you have seen dead and dying in the foolish quarrel for which there was no need. Tell them of the foulness, of the cruelty, of the senselessness of it all. Set the women against War. That is the only way to end it." It was a morning or two later that, knocking at the door of her loft, he asked her if she would care to come with him to the trenches.
"Do you know why you made that base and shameful marriage? Simply because the shame and senselessness of it reached the pitch of genius! Oh, you are not one of those who linger on the brink. You fly head foremost. You married from a passion for martyrdom, from a craving for remorse, through moral sensuality. It was a laceration of the nerves... Defiance of common sense was too tempting.
I put you outside! Ivan Matveitch could hardly speak Russian at all, and despised our 'coarse jargon, ce jargon vulgaire et rude. Some one once said before him, 'That same's self-understood. Ivan Matveitch was quite indignant, and often afterwards quoted the phrase as an example of the senselessness and absurdity of the Russian tongue.
And such had European life, politics, Freemasonry, philosophy, and philanthropy seemed to him. But even then, at moments of weakness as he had accounted them, his mind had penetrated to those distances and he had there seen the same pettiness, worldliness, and senselessness.
They relied upon a display of magic power from their firearms that would impress superior numbers with the senselessness of hostilities. They did not sleep in great security, and early in the morning proceeded with the demonstration, upon which much depended. When they set up a target and at sixty yards pierced a scrap of paper and the tree to which it was pinned the effect was satisfactory.
There was a shade of desperate appeal or question on her uplifted, rugged countenance. "When the world gets too much for me," she said, "and I lose my patience with the senselessness of the tragedy of it, I get a sort of courage from looking up like this into the height and the still, clear blueness.
I was astonished at her words, and said: 'Is this really true, O thou wise Diotima? And she answered with all the authority of an accomplished sophist: 'Of that, Socrates, you may be assured; think only of the ambition of men, and you will wonder at the senselessness of their ways, unless you consider how they are stirred by the love of an immortality of fame.
Can't you bear to strike a blow for the great things? You and I see so well the utter barbarism of warfare, the hideous waste of our mighty armaments, draining the money like blood from our countries, and all for senselessness, all just to keep alive that strange spirit which belongs to the days of romance, and the days of romance only. It's a workaday world now, Maraton.
Vexed at the feeble senselessness of her reply she found herself walking down the landing, toward nowhere in particular. She turned abruptly and came back. "Do you want a book?" she repeated. "Oh, I forgot that you can't see to read. But perhaps you might care to smoke." "Are you going away?" "I don't mind your smoking." He lighted a cigarette; she looked at him irresolutely.
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