She had treated him badly; she had hurt him and her aunt; she had done wrong by their standards, and she would never persuade them that she had done right. Ann Veronica had come to the Imperial College obsessed by the great figure of Russell, by the part he had played in the Darwinian controversies, and by the resolute effect of the grim-lipped, yellow, leonine face beneath the mane of silvery hair. On the fifth day he had ventured speech with her. Gerald stood quite still for a moment or two, listening intently. Around him were all the evidences of plenty. ‘You didn’t understand it any better than I. It was on the eve of that memorable rebellion which broke forth, two months later, in Scotland. The true creative mind is always returning to battle; defeats are only temporary setbacks. I didn’t allow myself to see things as they were in those days; now I do. The Yale spirit! James Boyle O'Higgins was, as the saying goes, somewhat out of luck. I had already won wars and sailed ships to distant lands by the time I was thirty.
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