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"Tell me," he said in a rare burst of confidence, "Do you think a battle is the real test of courage? Here and there men run away to be sure. But how many fight and fight no worse than the rest by reason of a sort of cowardice? Fear of their companions in arms might dominate fear of the enemy." "No doubt," said Max. "And you infer?" "That the only touchstone is a solitary peril.
There was a similar reformation in the outward man of Davie Gellatley, who met them, every now and then stopping to admire the new suit which graced his person, in the same colours as formerly, but bedizened fine enough to have served Touchstone himself.
She rarely differed with her father, up to whom, taking example from the world around him, she looked as the pattern of a man of wise conduct. And he was one; and though modest, he was in good humour with himself, approved himself, and could say, that without boasting of success, he was a satisfied man, until he met his touchstone in Lady Camper.
I only try in my poor way, as occasion presents itself" she let her voice drop down so it went sort of soft and ketchy "to mollify some of the harsher asperities of our youthfully strenuous community; to apply, as it were, the touchstone of Boston social standards the standards that you and I, sir, recognize to the sometimes too rough ways of our rough little frontier settlement.
Shakespeare has doubtless convinced you of the inevitability of their mating. I have always prided myself of a certain Touchstone element in my nature. There is much that is Audrey-esque in the lady whose disappearance from Clermont-Ferrand may be causing perturbation.
'He that doeth righteousness is righteous, and he is to be righteous 'even as He is righteous. If you are God's, you will be like God. Apply the touchstone to your lives, and test your Christianity by this simple and most stringent test. But again, we may look at the thought as holding forth a great hope. I do not wish to force upon Old Testament writers New Testament truth.
We would have it ever present consciously or unconsciously in the minds of all as the central faith in which they should live and move and have their being, as the touchstone of all things whereby they may be known as good or evil according as they make for good breeding or against it."
And sometimes it would be a piece of mirror, that showed the seeming of things; and then he would say, "This can never be, for there should be more than seeming". And sometimes it would be a lump of coal, which showed nothing; and then he would say, "This can never be, for at least there is the seeming". And sometimes it would be a touchstone indeed, beautiful in hue, adorned with polishing, the light inhabiting its sides; and when he found this, he would beg the thing, and the persons of that place would give it him, for all men were very generous of that gift; so that at the last he had his wallet full of them, and they chinked together when he rode; and when he halted by the side of the way he would take them out and try them, till his head turned like the sails upon a windmill.
Jesus Christ is the touchstone of trial. Our attitude towards Him reveals the true quality of the soul. There would also be a period of probation. "The axe laid to the root of the trees" is familiar enough to those who know anything of forestry. The woodman barks some tree which seems to him to be occupying space capable of being put to better use. There is no undue haste.
But something had happened. That which is counted the best thing in life had come to her, that best thing which is the touchstone of character as it is of all conditions, and which so often introduces inextricable complications. She had fallen in love with Jack Delancy and married him. The first effect of this was to awake and enlarge what philosophers would call her enthusiasm of humanity.
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