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The gray horsemen were fighting heroically; but what was that encounter of sabres, when the fate of Gettysburg was being decided at Cemetery Hill? So I pass over all that, and hasten on now to the sequel. Memory finds few scenes to attract it in the days that followed Gettysburg. But I beg the reader to observe that I should have no scenes of a humiliating character to draw.
I know some, who, if they were to write in Blank Verse Sir, I ask your pardon! would think it sounded more heroically to write Sir, I, your pardon ask! I should judge him to have little command of English, whom the necessity of a rhyme should force upon this rock; though, sometimes, it cannot be easily avoided. And, indeed, this is the only inconvenience with which Rhyme can be charged.
He evidently had something enormously important to say to her, but it seems that he could not manage it. He struggled heroically. The bay charger, with his great mystically solemn eyes, looked around the corner of his shoulder at the girl. The captain studied a pine tree. The girl inspected the grass beneath the window.
"Gallantry to the ladies," we are told of the hero of the greatest and most typical of English novels, "was among his principles of honor, and he held it as much incumbent on him to accept a challenge to love as if it had been a challenge to fight;" he heroically goes home for the night with a lady of title he meets at a masquerade, though at the time very much in love with the girl whom he eventually marries.
Just now, it is not your sake nor mine it is Henry Rayne's." The door opened slowly and the croaky voice of the old male servant broke upon her reverie. "Beg pardon Miss, but dinner is served." Heroically she stowed away her emotions, the old pleasant smile stole back into its home, and with a beaming face and cheerful step she passed into the dining-room.
Mrs Macalister seated herself in the larger of the chairs, Margot took possession of the smaller, and heroically stifled a yawn. Another evening she would wrap herself in her golf cape and go out into the clear cool evening air; but now at last fatigue overpowered her; fatigue and a little chill of disappointment and doubt.
"How many times a day did you have to do this?" "I didn't go out very often," he reminded her, "and it wasn't every day that the lift was out of order. It's only one more flight." She looked up the stairs, sighed, and raised her smart, grey, tailor-made skirt a little higher over her shoes. "Well," she announced heroically, "lead on.
After some delay the two conspirators wrenched the required promise from their cousin, who pretended to be deeply curious about the plot, and heroically unselfish in abandoning his designs upon it. At three o'clock the meeting was held under the elm-tree on the terrace; the B. B.'s reinforced to the number of twelve were there, and Tom and Gem did the honors with cordial hospitality.
A man who has been passionately in love three times before he has begun to verge upon middle age may easily be thought too inflammable a subject to be deserving of much pity, but a man may be keenly in sympathy with himself without enlisting the sympathy of other people, and Paul was here as always heroically and tragically in earnest.
"Yes, perhaps you are right," he said sadly, "though it would be a dreadful loss to Laurel Spring to us all if you went." "Do I look so VERY bad, doctor?" she said, with a half-mischievous, half-pathetic smile. The doctor thought her upturned face very adorable, but restrained his feelings heroically, and contented himself with replying to the pathetic half of her smile.
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