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This burning Nesta, Victor's daughter, tempered by Nataly's milder blood, was a girl in whom the hard shocks of the knowledge of life, perforce of the hardness upon pure metal, left a strengthening for generous imagination. She did not sit to brood on her injured senses or set them through speculation touching heat; they were taken up and consumed by the fire of her mind.
Una could not speak, but wept on; the grief she felt, however, became gradually milder in its character, until at length her violent sobbings were hushed; and, although the tears still flowed, they flowed in silence. "We will have him back, sartinly," said the Bodagh; "don't cry, dear, we'll have him here again with no disateful villain to swear away his life."
Before the boy's ranging eye spread the whole western rampart of the Peak to the right, the highest point, of Kinder Low, to the left, 'edge' behind 'edge, till the central rocky mass sank and faded towards the north into milder forms of green and undulating hills.
"Be quiet, Lion!" answered his wife, and stroked his black mane, which had begun to bristle. She took a bottle and a glass out of a basket. The Lion cheered up, swallowed the strong drink, smiled, and stroked his spouse's expansive bust. "Will you see the children?" asked Katherine, in order to bring him into a milder mood. "No, not to-day!
On both sides there still remained much of the spirit generated in times when life was less precious than the valour by which alone it could be held, and preserved through milder ages by the belief that death was not annihilation enough to give to both parties courage to sacrifice their lives for the victory of their cause and the destruction of their enemies.
"If what I have been through is not love, then may the Lord shield me from the real disease." "It may have been merely a light case of tropical enthusiasm, let us say. I have seen others, a little milder because the air was more temperate." "Tropical balderdash," he exploded. "If you are not the most exasperating, unfeeling man alive "
The Australian national character is the English national character of, say, seventy or eighty years ago, subjected to isolation from all foreign influences, and to general conditions much easier and milder than those of England; given unlimited breathing-space, and freed from all pressure of confined population; cut off also, to a very great extent, from the influence of tradition and ancient institutions.
"What is the matter?" asked the king, in a milder tone, "why do you not go, Kretzschmar?" "I cannot go away if your majesty is angry with me," muttered the servant, insolently. "I do not wish to hear or see any thing more for you when your majesty abuses me, and considers me such a mean, base fellow.
We are still perhaps traceably related to the Adamite old-youngster just on his legs, who betrayed at every turn his Darwinian beginnings, and relished a palpitating unwillingness in the thing refreshing him; only we young-oldsters cherish the milder taste for willingness, with a throb of the vanquished in it. And a seeming of that we get from the warm roast.
The serene and beneficent goddess Truth, like other deities whose disposition has been too hastily inferred from that of the men who have invoked them, can hardly be well pleased with much of the worship paid to her even in this milder age, when the stake and the rack have ceased to form part of her ritual.
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