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Yet ` courage ' is a term from-the-shoulder , and what I require is a word of finger-tips , over-tones , ultra-rays -- a word for the few who understand that to leave a thing is more exquisite than to outwear it . It is by its very fineness circumscribed -- a feminine virtue . Women understand it and keep it secret . I flatter myself that I have possessed the high moment , vanished against the noon . Ah , my dear fellow -- '' he added , lifting his glass to St. George 's smile . But little Cawthorne -- all reality in his heliotrope outing and duck and grey curls -- raised a characteristic plaint . `` Oh , but I 've done it , '' he mournfully reviewed .