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92 the idea that he ought not to try to row on, just when such conduct was fatal. A man can remedy a good deal that lie feels is an 'insincere' attitude toward daily life. And what is more, any worthy, any elevating profession, and in the case of the soldier the sense of himself as a prop and moral element in the State must not be insulted! The army-life even if chosen merely from duty, and led in times of peace, is a good deal like the marriage of respect. The man may never have loved the wife to whom he is bound, he may never be able to love her, he may find her presence lamentably unsympathisch. But mere self-respect and the outward duty to her, and duty to those who are concerned in her honour as in his, in her welfare as in his.... there comes in the unavoidable and just demand! Honour and country are eloquent for a soldier, always. It was on the indispensable, unwelcome, ever postponed Hadiskolai course that, once more, this afternoon. I found myself voluble with Imre. If I could not well speak of myself, I could of him, in a parting appeal.