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Updated: June 27, 2025
"What business had I to expect that he was going to be our friend?" she said in her heart. "We are only tenants to him." "What a kind-spoken young man he is, to be sure, Mercy!" said Mrs. Carr. So all-sufficient is bare kindliness of tone and speech to the unsensitive nature. "Yes, mother, he was very kind," said Mercy; "but I don't think we shall ever know him very well."
The point would hardly be worth dwelling upon, were it not that the different attitude it denotes really leads in some instances to actual misunderstanding. The Englishman, with his somewhat unsensitive feelers, is apt, in all good faith and unconsciousness, to criticise American ways to the American with much more freedom than he would criticise French ways to a Frenchman.
It looks out at you impassive, penetrating, as though it would hear all and tell nothing, a strong, self-continent, completely balanced character, unshrinking, unyielding, yet without being unsensitive, concentrated, justly poised, and intense, without being passionate.
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