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It was Germany's guilt this war. Well, I could not read all the secrets of our Foreign Office for twenty years or more to know with what tact or tactlessness, with what honesty or charity, or with what arrogance or indifference our statesmen had dealt with Germany's claims or Germany's aspirations.
Three different people have vouched to me for the truth of this anecdote, each naming the heroine, and each giving her a different name. True or false, it is held in America to be typical; and it would scarcely be so popular as it is unless people had suffered a good deal from the tactlessness which it exemplifies.
At that time they were well thought of, and even practiced by the eminent philanthropist who had endowed the very chair which Moreton occupied. The trustees felt that it was unkind and unnecessary to complicate their already difficult duties by such tactlessness, and their hearts began to turn against Moreton, as most of our hearts turn against those who make life too hard for us.
On one occasion the impatience that was like a festering sore among the men of this camp nearly resulted in a show of mutiny. Oil was added to the flame of our discontent by the tactlessness of the camp adjutant. He will always be known to the men of those days as the "Puppy."
In the face of the tactlessness of hard facts, Christine decided to create a diversion. "I can't stand here gossiping about the conduct of an aviator," she said, "when there's so much to be done. Look at all these dirty plates. What ought to be done with them, Edward, dear?" she appealed to him as to a fountain of wisdom, and he did not fail her. "They ought to be washed," he said.
Klaas said to Hilda before me, with the curious tactlessness of her race, when we made our first arrangement. Hilda's face flushed. "No; we are nothing to one another," she answered which was only true formally. "Dr. Cumberledge had a post at the same hospital in London where I was a nurse; and he thought he would like to try Rhodesia. That is all." Mrs.
It was then that he discovered that Yerba was not only accomplished, but that this convent-bred girl had acquired a singular breadth of knowledge apart from the ordinary routine of the school curriculum. She spoke and thought with independent perceptions and clearness, yet without the tactlessness and masculine abruptness that is apt to detract from feminine originality of reflection.
"Very well," she said, "then they may see. Why shouldn't he call here if he wishes and I wish? Why shouldn't I be 'around with him, as you say? Why not?" "Well, because I don't like it. It isn't the right thing for you to do. You ought to be more careful of of what people say." He realized, almost as soon as this last sentence was blurted out, the absolute tactlessness of it.
To single out the foreign born as the exclusive objects of an Americanization effort is organized tactlessness.
When she spoke, it was with a tenderness that was half-humility. "Would it help, dear, to talk to me? We used always to talk over things, you know. Don't you remember? You said ever so many times that I had so much common sense!" Again, Hamilton spoke with a tactlessness that was fairly appalling: "Oh, yes, I remember very well. That was before we were married." "Yes before!"
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