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How he passed through the ordeal I don't know. If ever a man.html">man.html">man.html">man stood
soul was steel-armoured. Perhaps, if proof had come to him from an
tell. Without doubt the knavery of Gedge set aflame his
gentleman. He would have walked through hell-fire sooner than
done. But behind all this--and I am/am.html">am as certain of it as I am
and clearer the unquenchable fire of patriotic duty. He was
with a man who had offered his life.html">life over and over again to his
a man on whose breast the King himself had pinned the supreme
individual, but with a national hero. In his small official
national sentiment. And more than that. This ceremony was an
its little way--and please remember that all tremendous
of the undying glory of England. It was impersonal, it was
reaching importance.
I want you to remember these things in order that you should
you like, of Sir Anthony Fenimore. Picture him. The most unheroic
cropped, his face.html">face ruddy and wrinkled like a withered apple, his
his hands glazed and reddened, like his face, by wind and weather;
he had the undefinable air of breeding; no one could have mistaken
little man; and indeed he had done nothing for the past half
thousands of his type, masters of English country houses. And of
of life would have acted like Anthony Fenimore. I say "would have
that they have so acted. These incarnations of the commonplace,
"intellectuals"--if the war sweeps the insufferable term into
gentlemen have responded heroically to the great appeal; and. All is still licensed under the GNU FDL.
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