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The veil did her positive service. He was honourably scrupulous not to presume. A right good unimpulsive gentleman: the same that she had always taken him for and liked. 'These firs are not taproots, he observed, by way of apology. Her dress volumed and her ribands rattled and chirruped on the verge of the slope. 'I will take your arm here, she said.
Jacinth's usually cold unimpulsive nature was strongly moved; there is always something impressive and touching in the emotion of the aged. And Lady Myrtle, one felt by instinct, was rarely demonstrative.
'I was telling Frances so, only yesterday. Frances reddened again. 'Well, yes, said Miss Mildmay. 'Still, one cannot make a hard and fast rule about such matters. It calls for a little tact. She was very inconsistent; who is not? Something in Jacinth's premature wisdom almost savouring of 'worldly' wisdom rather repelled her, careful and unimpulsive though she herself was.
Also, she was a pretty girl if you care for brunettes and accomplished. She was versed in I forget how many foreign languages, both Continental and dead, and could discourse sensibly in any one of them. She was perfectly reasonable, perfectly consistent, perfectly unimpulsive, and never expressed an opinion that was not countenanced by at least two competent authorities.
His unattractive austerity perhaps has been made too much of by his enemies, and grew out of his unimpulsive temperament, call it cold if we must, and also out of his stern theology, which marked the ascetics of the Middle Ages. Few would now approve of his severity of discipline any more than they would feel inclined to accept some of his theological deductions.
His eighty years and twenty-five days of life comprise an epitome of the history and growth of a great community. Not so would you at first interpret that plain old man; though, to a knowing eye, that eye, clear with looking at the duty that lies nearest, that mouth, telling of patient, unimpulsive energy, that broadness about the brow, would be guaranties of a marked life.
The idea of duty, of absolute responsibility and subordination from rank to rank, seems to have been that to which he was always content to appeal. Accordingly, his troops never failed him. Their rock-like steadfastness and constant unimpulsive bravery, it was that enabled him to carry out his plans with such certainty.
O'Brien, too, staid and unimpulsive as was his character, deliberate and circumspect as were his habits, was evidently inclined to give the weight of his name and influence to this "advanced" party. And there were many less prominent, but scarcely less able men giving them the aid of their great talents in the press and on the platform not only men, but women too.
Observing that the passions of childhood illustrate this connexion, let us turn to certain interesting questions concerning the decrease of impulsiveness which accompanies advance in evolution. The nervous processes of an impulsive being, are less remote from reflex actions than are those of an unimpulsive being.
For it is, in fact, obliged, with us, to defeat and destroy itself by taking a very full, entire, tedious, and impotent convention; a complete body of convention; a convention of demonstrativeness of voice and manners intended to be expressive, and, in particular, a whole weak and unimpulsive convention of gesture.
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