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Updated: May 16, 2025
Everyone felt awkward, and to feel awkward was nothing less than tragic, in the eyes of the assembly. "Oh, Hadria, how could you?" cried Mrs. Gordon, coming up in her elaborate toilette, which expressed almost as much of the character of its wearer as was indicated by her thin, chattering tones, and unreposeful manner. Her mode of dress was rich and florid very obvious in its effects, very naïf.
Virtue, therefore, is not based upon dogma, but dogma upon virtue, and it is not faith that creates martyrs but martyrs who create faith. There is no security or repose so far as security and repose are obtainable in this life, so essentially insecure and unreposeful save in conduct that is passionately good. Conduct, practice, is the proof of doctrine, theory.
At heart something of a Puritan, the straight-backed chairs and unreposeful sofa, the secretary with its diamond-paned doors and glass knobs, the quaint old jardinières brought from China a century ago, pleased her fancy. How Genevieve Whittredge had smiled and shrugged her shoulders! In those days their half antagonistic friendship had not suffered a complete break.
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