We are in some ways familiar with Tone, his high character, his genial open nature, his daring, his patience, his farsightedness, his judgment--in spirit tireless and indomitable: a man peerless among his fellows.

But he had yet one compeer; there was one nature that matched his to depth and height of its greatness--that nature was a woman's, and the woman was Wolfe Tone's wife.
VI It is well this heroic example of our womanhood should be before not only our womanhood but our manhood.

It should show us all that patriotism does not destroy the finer feelings, but rather calls them forth and gives them wider play.

We have been too used to thinking that the qualities of love and tenderness are no virtues for a soldier, that they will sap his resolution and destroy his work; but our movements fail always when they fail to be human.

Until we mature and the poetry in life is wakening, we are ready to act by a theory; but when Nature asserts herself the hard theorist fails to hold us.