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He sought to persuade himself of Hamilton's infallible wisdom and Mary's folly of infatuation, but the only certain conviction was that of a bruised and heavy heart in his own breast. Paul was pitiably weak, but, also, he was sensitively tender. Love he gave and commanded with the uncalculating quality of a child. To Marcia he had not confided any word of his status with Mrs.
September 28th, 1916. My Dears: We're in the midst of a fine old show, so I don't get much opportunity for writing. Suffice it to say that I've seen the big side of war by now and the extraordinary uncalculating courage of it. Men run out of a trench to an attack with as much eagerness as they would display in overtaking a late bus.
Indeed, I may add here, that the really sensitive natures amongst men are never found under forty-five; but for genuine, uncalculating affection, for the sort of devotion that flings consequences to the winds, I say, give me fifty-eight or sixty. 'Nina, do not make me hate you, said Kate gravely. 'Certainly not, dearest, if a little hypocrisy will avert such a misfortune.
It is an intelligent, discerning, discriminating principle; not a blind, headlong, generalizing, uncalculating operation.
And the uncalculating cruelty in the man's voice sent the red to the girl's white face, and moving over to him made her lean down and kiss him upon the mouth. And then she seated herself upon the ground and made tea, laughing like a child when to please her the Arab drank it protestingly. "By Allah! it is a poison which you drink in Europe, and yet you would go and drink it in a crowded city."
"No, you don't realize just how much of a fool you are where women are concerned," she returned, judicially. "A woman a young woman is generally interested in hearing first of all a little about love and devotion and loyalty, all unselfish and uncalculating. Now be patient! Listen to me! A woman can detect real love. And real love seeks its opportunity sweetly and shyly.
Honest minds are devoid of tact; their excellence is uncalculating, even unreflecting, because they are wholly without evasions or mental reservations of their own.
He coloured suddenly, as if suspecting that Miss Hicks might consider the avowal an opening for he hardly knew what ponderous offer of aid. The Hicks munificence was too uncalculating not to be occasionally oppressive. But looking at her again he saw that her eyes were full of tears. "I thought it was your vocation," she said. "So did I. But life comes along, and upsets things."
The strength of the Home Rule movement is rendered tenfold greater by the adhesion to it of large numbers of women, who bring to its helping the uncalculating heroism, the endurance, the self-sacrifice, of the feminine nature.
In fact, for a day and a night he had surrendered to sentiment and had found a strange sort of intoxication in the experience. His heart was with the humble folk and pity was in him pity which was uncalculating and in which his cynicism was dissolving.
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