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Greatheart is a hard one in both respects; and for this reason, because the learned and much experienced guide learned with all that his life-long quarters in the Interpreter's House could teach him, and experienced with a lifetime's accumulated experience of the pilgrim life has put all his learning and all his life into these two mysterious lines.
The baby-hand that had done nothing, and felt only its mother's kiss; the old lady's hand that had exchanged the love-pressure, worn the marriage-ring, closed dead eyes, done a lifetime's work, in short. The sentiment is rather obvious, but true nevertheless.
He counts his power of loving most sacred of all his powers, and guards it from harm as he guards his life itself; he gives all his soul to the dreaming of that dream, and lays all his prayer before it; and when he meets with the maiden who will honor such effort, he forgets everything else in his life, and gives her all his heart, and studies to 'worship her by years of noble deeds. For a woman who loves love, the heart of such a man is a lifetime's treasure; for his passion is of the soul, and does not die; and all that he has done has been really but a training of himself for that great consecration.
And Paul wondered. As for the Count de Roannes, the Boy dismissed him at once as unworthy of further consideration. He was brilliantly, even artificially polished glaringly ultra-fashionable, ostentatiously polite and suave. In the lines of his bestial face he bore the records of a lifetime's profligacy and the black tales of habitual self-indulgence.
"Go and pack your suit-case quickly then!" he ordered. "I want to get away from here within half an hour!" But before the girl had half crossed the room he called to her suddenly, his whole bearing and manner miraculously changed, and his face in that moment as haggard as if a whole lifetime's struggle was packed into it. "Rae Malgregor," he drawled mockingly.
The baby-hand that had done nothing, and felt only its mother's kiss; the old lady's hand that had exchanged the love-pressure, worn the marriage-ring, closed dead eyes, done a lifetime's work, in short. The sentiment is rather obvious, but true nevertheless.
Clive was arrested by something in her tone, something new to him, that in its poignant finality seemed to have caught up and expressed in a single instant that bitterness of a lifetime's renunciation which falls to the lot of most women. 'Will you come outside? he asked in a different voice.
It was strange she hadn't thought of that during her talk with Rose! Now that the idea had occurred to her she tried hard to look at the event that way and to nurse into energetic life a tragic regret over the miscarriage of a lifetime's hope. It was all so obviously what she ought to feel.
It was from one of these recesses, too, that I saw stout old Isaac Paris shot down, and then dragged away a prisoner by the Tories, to be handed over to the hatchets of their Indian friends a few days hence. Fancy three hours of this horrible forest warfare, in which every minute bore a whole lifetime's strain and burden of peril!
John caught his breath; he turned upon her almost violently. But she was facing away from him, down the avenue, so that he could not get her eyes. "In that case," she said, "wouldn't you owe her something?" "I should owe myself a lifetime's penance with the discipline," John on a solemn tone replied, hungrily looking at her cheek, at the little tendrils of dark hair about her brow.