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"Blessings, Gabriella, for this generous confidence!" she exclaimed, throwing her arms round me, with all the impulsiveness of childhood; "but it is all in vain. Do you think I would take advantage of Julian's uncalculating love, and entail upon him for life the support and guardianship of this frail, helpless form? Do you think I would hang a dead, dull weight on the wings of his young ambition?
But this woman, in her uncalculating devotion, broke the vessel, that all its contents might issue forth in one consecrated gift of love. And it was what this broken vase symbolized that explains, or does something to explain, the unmeasured recognition of the action. This is the moral temper of the young man whom St. John describes as strong.
For example, it is related of Antony that, at one time in the course of his life, having a desire to make a present of some kind to a certain person, in requital for a favor which he had received from him, he ordered his treasurer to send a sum of money to his friend and named for the sum to be sent an amount considerably greater than was really required under the circumstances of the case acting thus, as he often did, under the influence of a blind and uncalculating generosity.
She served the highest good of all generations by her uncalculating profusion, by which the poor have gained more than some few of them might have lost. Judas's criticism is still repeated. The world does not understand Christian self-sacrifice, for ends which seem to it shadowy as compared with the solid realities of helping material progress or satisfying material wants.
Light-hearted, wrongheaded, impulsive, uncalculating, with an Oriental love of hyperbole, and too often a common dislike of cold water and of that gem which the fable tells us rests at the bottom of the well, the Celtic elements of their character do not readily accommodate themselves to those of the hard, cool, self-relying Anglo-Saxon.
He disliked Carnac for his uncalculating candour; but he realized that, behind all, was something disturbing to his life. "It's a woman," Tarboe said to himself, "it's a woman. He's made a fool of himself." Tarboe was right. He had done what no one else had done he had pierced the cloud surrounding Carnac: it was a woman. "I hear you're pulling things off here," remarked Carnac civilly.
She abandoned husband and home, and followed him. She forsook her home, where she was provided with every comfort, to follow this man who had inspired her with such a strange affection. Is there anything more to be deplored," concluded the client, in a trembling voice, "than the wrecking of a home by a woman's uncalculating folly?" Lawyer Gooch delivered the cautious opinion that there was not.
The jury, to a man, glowed with enthusiasm, and from the audience rose one long and suppressed sigh of answering feeling, which was all the tribute he needed for his eloquence or Carmel for her uncalculating, self-sacrificing deed. I could have called upon the mountains to cover me; but God be praised no one thought of me in that hour. Every throb, every thought was for her.
One quality which we especially value in him is the intense home-feeling which, without any conscious aim at being American, gives his poetry a flavor of the soil surprisingly refreshing. Without being narrowly provincial, he is the most indigenous of our poets. In these times, especially, his uncalculating love of country has a profound pathos in it.
Nevertheless, we cannot deny that when, in 1827, by his acceptance of a seat in the Senate, he gave himself permanently to public life, he made a sacrifice of his pecuniary interests which, for a man of such vast requirements and uncalculating habits, was very great. But his reward was also very great.
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