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She put out her hands in a happy, intimate way to hold him off. "You can't realize it, Robert, can you? That dear, practical business head of yours makes it even harder for you than it is for me and I can hardly realize it myself.
"Is she one of those you were speaking about just now a child of God?" "Yes; she is," said Christie, gravely. "She doesn't say much about it; but I do believe it is that which makes the difference. No wonder that she is strong and brave and cheerful always, when she is quite sure that all things will work together for her good." Christie spoke the last words rather to herself than to Mrs Lee.
Shame of Poverty makes Laertes> launch into unnecessary Equipage, vain Expense, and lavish Entertainments; Fear of Poverty makes Irus allow himself only plain Necessaries, appear without a Servant, sell his own Corn, attend his Labourers, and be himself a Labourer.
"Besides these, we have another messmate, who is a French chevalier, an odd sort of a man, a kind of Lazarillo de Tormes, a caricatura; he wears a long beard, pretends to be a great poet, and makes a d -ed fracas with his verses.
Persecution makes the stronger among us bitter; the weaker among us hypocrites; it never has made and never can make an honest convert."
Courage of a high order, enthusiasm, faith, must they have had, or the call to cross a perilous, pathless ocean, to brave unknown dangers in a new world would have found no response in their hearts. They settled in Maryland and into this fighting pioneer blood entered that strange magic influence of the South, which makes for romance, for imagination, for the poetic and ideal in temperament.
He had been seated some minutes before he observed that Glastonbury was next to him. 'I am so nervous, dear Glastonbury, said Ferdinand, 'that I do not think I shall be able to remain in the room. 'I have heard something, said Glastonbury, with a smile, 'that makes me quite bold. 'I cannot help fancying that it is all enchantment, said Ferdinand.
At present, the worst of men of genius is that they are not always the most brisk and efficient boys. A genius is apt to be perceptive and sensitive. His perceptiveness makes him seem bewildered, because he is vaguely interested in everything that he sees; his sensitiveness makes him hold his tongue, because he gets snubbed if he asks too many questions.
You say, you acknowledge me, because I am approved of by the King; but you take no notice of my commission from the Proprietors, which is what makes me Governor.
What's there in this to fill you with conjectures?" "There's never been anything like this before," Hsi Jen added, "so, it makes me feel uneasy." Pao-ch'ai compressed her lips. "If this," she laughed; "makes you fell uneasy, there will be by and bye other things to make you far more uneasy."
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