Oh, that is pure nonsense Mister Rutyer and you must be aware of it! Hearts are nothing at all like—it merely takes a considerable deal of practice, you know. And perhaps, yes, the company of one or two models of virtue and compassion and what have you. But they are muscles like any other thing, you know. You must only exercise it. That is clearly true.
[In some other place, in any other circumstance, this would have the upturned nose tenor of handing down a lecture. She has given him them before, and has more than demonstrated that she is capable of that sort of shamelessly self absorbed intellectualism. But maybe it's the tears, or the one arm, or the sad little sick bed or the fact that she's exhausted, but here in these very exacting circumstances it's all painted with a faintly desperate tint.
That must be true. She has been trying very hard believing it to be so, and it would be dreadful to hear otherwise now.]
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Oh, that is pure nonsense Mister Rutyer and you must be aware of it! Hearts are nothing at all like—it merely takes a considerable deal of practice, you know. And perhaps, yes, the company of one or two models of virtue and compassion and what have you. But they are muscles like any other thing, you know. You must only exercise it. That is clearly true.
[In some other place, in any other circumstance, this would have the upturned nose tenor of handing down a lecture. She has given him them before, and has more than demonstrated that she is capable of that sort of shamelessly self absorbed intellectualism. But maybe it's the tears, or the one arm, or the sad little sick bed or the fact that she's exhausted, but here in these very exacting circumstances it's all painted with a faintly desperate tint.
That must be true. She has been trying very hard believing it to be so, and it would be dreadful to hear otherwise now.]