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Patten, now took the unusual step of calling at the vicarage one morning; and the tears came into her unsentimental eyes as she saw Milly seated pale and feeble in the parlour, unable to persevere in sewing the pinafore that lay on the table beside her.
"Never man had a more unsentimental mother than mine: she never seems to think that such a calamity can befall her as a daughter-in-law." "If I don't, it is not for want of having that same calamity held over my head: you have threatened me with it for the last ten years. 'Mamma, I am going to be married soon! was the cry before you were well out of jackets."
Wolves in sheep's clothing were common objects of the wayside in her unprotected life; and perhaps her chief reason for appreciating this friendship was the feeling of safety which it gave her. Their relations, she told herself, were so splendidly unsentimental.
But whether they were alone or in company, whether they danced or talked, whether he came or went, she showed a perfect unconcern and freedom of manner to which he longed to put an end. She was much too cold and collected even for his unsentimental nature.
George could not be said to be on the best of terms with his American relations, but the Anglo-Saxon is unsentimental, phlegmatic, setting money and trade and lands above ideals. George meant to go to war again. Napoleon also meant to go to war again. But George meant to go to war again right away, which was inconvenient and inconsiderate, for Napoleon had not finished his game of chess.
"God speed, boy!" he said. Garry unsentimental Garry blinked as the car shot down the lane. He clashed his gears and shuddered. Brian stared. "Phew!" he whistled as Joan came down the steps. "Garry's driving like a blacksmith." They clung to each other in the dark and watched the headlights play upon the trees. From the end of the lane came Kenny's final gift of reassurance.
"How jolly!" was my exclamation. Jack looked as delighted with this unsentimental comment as if I had broken out into all sorts of poetic raptures, and replied, in his peculiar, solemn way, "Yes, she is jolly." "Is she your only sister?" I asked, giving him back the portrait. "Yes," said he. "Was she very ill when you got down?" "Yes; we hardly thought she was going to live," he replied.
Yet, physician and unsentimental thinker that he was, he felt to a certain degree the inevitableness of her fate. The common thing would be to shake the dirt from one's shoes, to turn one's back on the diseased and mistaken being, "to put it away where it would not trouble," but she did not seek to escape.
But I've got mother's disposition, too and that makes me far too good for such a cold, unsentimental, ambitious person as you." "Don't you think you're rather rash to confess so frankly when I could still escape?" "Not at all," was her confident answer. "I know you, and so I know nothing could make you break your word."
Modern admirers of La Fontaine have tended to throw a veil of sentiment over his figure, picturing him as the consoling beatific child of nature, driven by an unsympathetic generation to a wistful companionship with the dumb world of brutes. But nothing could be farther from the truth than this conception. La Fontaine was as unsentimental as Molière himself.
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