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Most men give themselves away in their letters, and T. E. was no exception. The final casting-up of his complicated, restless, unfrank character is well done by Robert Graves: "He had all the marks of the Irishman: the rhetoric of freedom, the rhetoric of chastity, the rhetoric of honour, the power to excite sudden deep affections, loyalty to the long-buried past, high-aims qualified by too mocking a sense of humour, serenity clouded by petulance and broken by occasional black despairs, playboy charm and theatricality, imagination that overruns itself and tires, extreme generosity, serpent cunning, lion courage, diabolic...
...shall not want Honour in Heaven...
...with a razor. Meanwhile Gauguin and Mette wrote to each other, in a fairly friendly fashion. He tried to explain to her why he was acting as he did: "My business is art, it is my capital, it is the future of my children, it is the honour of the name I have given them-all things which will serve them one day. Therefore I work at my art, which is nothing (in money) for the moment (times are bad), but which will take shape in the future. That is a long time to wait, you will say, but what...
Paragraph 5. "We desire to record our considered opinion that the representatives of Imperial Airways have behaved throughout with perfect propriety. The action taken by them has been dictated by a jealous regard for the honour of the Company and the maintenance of public integrity, and sprang only from a natural apprehension lest the barest suspicion should arise that the relations between the Company and His Majesty's Government had been influenced by individual and personal interests...
...naked light narrow on his space face - While the ship's traffic flowed, unceasing, past him. IV "Thus I speak at the schooled him word to - at go a and sign be come - dumb; To stand to his task, not seeking others to aid him; To share in honour what praise might fall For the task accomplished and - over all - To swallow rebuke in silence. Thus I made...