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The nation's representative is less secure in his tenure of office than his own servant, to whom he must give warning of his impending dismissal. "A breath unmakes him as a breath has made." The chief magistrate's responsibility to duty, to the fellow-citizen at his mercy, to his countrymen, to mankind, is in proportion to his power.
Her modest attitude, which, before I saw her I had not liked, deeming that it might be an artificial shame, is partly what unmakes her as the heathen goddess, and softens her into woman. There is a slight degree of alarm, too, in her face; not that she really thinks anybody is looking at her, yet the idea has flitted through her mind, and startled her a little.
So an army is but a larger police; and its official head is that plain man at the White House, who makes or unmakes, not merely brevet-brigadiers, but major-generals in command, who can by the stroke of the pen convert the most powerful man of the army into the most powerless.
So all things change and die, and so your body too must change and die but not yourself. Madam How made your body; and she must unmake it again, as she unmakes all her works in Time and Space; but you, child, your Soul, and Life, and Self, she did not make; and over you she has no power.
"We shall go together, as we have always gone. And, after all, what is a name but sounding brass? 'Tis a man's arm that makes or unmakes his honesty, not his thrift; his loyalty, rather than his self-interest. We shall go together. Come; we'll sign the major's papers, and have done with it." Victor threw his hat into the air.
'Not wrong in feeling this way now; I don't believe you can help that; but in deciding to go on feeling it. You mustn't talk about final decisions. 'But they are made. 'They can't be made in life. Life unmakes them, I mean, unless you set yourself against it and ruin things that might be mended. 'I'm afraid I can't take things as you do, said Helen.
"Ah," exclaimed Eleanor, "here comes the hero of the hour, the maker and unmaker of Ministries." "As the weather-cock makes and unmakes the wind," said Sir John, with a smile. "What? Mr. Coxon?" said Lady Eynesford, and, pleased to have an opportunity of renewing her politeness without revoking her edict, she made the late Minister a very gracious bow.
War unmakes legs, and human skill must supply their places as it best may. Our common idea of a wooden leg is realized in the "peg" of the Greenwich pensioner. This humble contrivance has done excellent service in its time, and may serve a good purpose still in some cases.
Into that sad obscure sequestered state Where God unmakes but to remake the soul He else made first in vain,
So widespread is this belief, largely pagan in its origin, that mere fortune either makes or unmakes men, that it seems worth while to discuss and refute this dangerous delusion. Of course, if the doctrine merely means that men are the victims of circumstances and surroundings, it is a truism. It is luckier to be born heir to a peerage and £100,000 than to be born in Whitechapel.
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