What a wonderfully loving Mama, indeed! :D ~~~ I thought this quote well suited my nephew Robert. He may not be familiar with smashed faces literally, but as Earl of Grantham, he knows the metaphorical sense very well. He will fight to protect his family and his home, but he is also a gentle, good man with a great deal of love in his heart. I know that Cora and the girls are proud of him, Violet is proud to call him her son, and I am proud to call him my nephew. "The knight is a man of blood and iron, a man familiar with the sight of smashed faces and the ragged stumps of lopped-off limbs; he is also a demure, almost a maidenlike, guest in hall, a gentle, modest, unobtrusive man. He is not a compromise or happy mean between ferocity and meekness; he is fierce to the nth and meek to the nth." - C.S. Lewis, “The Necessity of Chivalry” in Present Concerns, 13 — with Lord Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham.
Posted on: Sun, 29 Sep 2013 01:42:06 +0000