They admire with lasting admiration those who are hard on themselves and take their troubles without comment or complaint.

They admire courage, and they can appreciate patience if it does not seem to be conscious of itself.

But they do not look up to a character in which mildness so predominates that it cannot be roused to indignation and even anger in a good cause.

A power of being roused is felt as a force in reserve, and the knowledge that it is there is often enough to maintain peace and order without any need for interference or remonstrance.

They are offended by a patience which looks like weariness, determined if it were at the last gasp to "improve the occasion" and say something of educational profit.