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He elevated and refined the world of business, just as he benefited everything he touched. His early death at the age of sixty-one seemed a calamity for England, for we so needed the help of his generous, gentle and unresentful spirit. He lived not in vain; yet years must pass before the full and sublime truths for which he stood are realized." These are the times that try men's souls.
I read somewhere the other day," he went on, "that it might easily be argued that the dog was a higher flight of nature even than man; that man has gone ahead in mind and inventiveness; but that the dog is on the whole the better Christian, because he does by instinct what man fails to do by intention he is so sympathetic, so unresentful, so trustful!
Her unresentful acceptance of things was at once significant and moving. Betty found her amazing. What she lived on it was not easy to understand. She seemed rather like a cheerful old bird, getting up each unprovided-for morning, and picking up her sustenance where she found it.
On being assured that we had not, she proceeded to establish amicable relations with the one-eyed girl and me by telling us she was glad we "weren't Ginnies, anyway." "Whatever happened to yer eye?" inquired the other crone of my companion. Unresentful of the blunt inquisitiveness, the girl responded cordially with her little story glad, apparently, to have a listener.
Through it all he had remained gentle, smiling, sympathetic, unresentful. The world can never spare the man who does his work and holds his peace. Emerson was being lifted up, and souls were being drawn unto him. In Eighteen Hundred Forty, Bronson Alcott, the American Socrates, with his interesting family, moved to Concord, drawn thither by the magnet of Emerson's personality.
M. de Bellegarde stared, with a look of unresentful perplexity. He laid his hand on Newman's sleeve and seemed on the point of saying something, but he suddenly checked himself, leaned back in his chair, and puffed at his cigar. At last, however, breaking silence, "Certainly," he said, "my coming to see you is an act of friendship. Nevertheless I was in a measure obliged to do so.
"Shoot, Jules follow his rear lamp, and don't cut out your muffler. Can you manage without headlights for a while?" "I drove an ambulance for four years, sir." The car swung out into the main highway. Far ahead the red sardonic eye in the rear of the limousine leered as if mocking their hopes of keeping it in sight. Jules, however, proved unresentful; and he was marvellously competent.
He lets everybody that wants to just trample on him and grind their dust into him, and he acts real pleased and grateful." Hayward's face flushed. "Did Mrs. Adkins mention that she was one of the people who used you for a door-mat?" he demanded. Jim threw back his head and laughed like a child, with the sweetest sense of unresentful humor.
"I am sorry for many of the worries I have caused," he said, in a quiet, unresentful manner, free alike from surprise or anger. "I've been trying to do better. You knew I'd been away?" "That was one of the features of the case that looked a little suspicious," answered Garrison. "I didn't care to tell where I was going, in case my mission should fail," the young fellow imparted.
And with that, they looked into each other's eyes, and laughed. "Are you aware," the lady asked, after a brief silence, "that it is a singularly lovely evening." "I have a hundred reasons for thinking it so," Peter answered, with the least approach to a meaning bow. In the lady's face there flickered, perhaps, for half a second, the faintest light, as of a comprehending and unresentful smile.
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