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But before this unromantic conclusion to a rather sentimental scene could be suffered to take place, a servant brought word that Major Pendennis had returned to the hotel, and was waiting to see his nephew.

O, my dearest, my fondest, redeeming angel of my ill-spent life! have you been only a supernal visitant, after all, shining on me for a little while, to depart when your mission of redemption is accomplished?" "Powers above!" thought Mr. Sheldon, "what nonsense these sentimental magazine-writers can talk!" He was in nowise melted by the lover's anguish, though it was very real.

So, being a good man with a high ethical standard, he stepped up into the pulpit and did his best during the opportunity which was at his disposal to correct the effect of what he considered sentimental doggerel.

Figtree, who is of a sentimental turn, regrets that Ulric could not be saved, and married to the comic heroine. "Nay, sir, there was an utter annihilation of the Hungarian army at Mohacz," says Mr. Johnson, "and Ulric must take his knock on the head with the rest. He could only be saved by flight, and you wouldn't have a hero run away!

There was no kind of sentimental wistfulness in his nature; his imagination had no poetical trick of investing the face and form of any passably good-looking girl with a halo of rainbow-hues; even as a lad his dreams had concerned themselves more with the possibility of his becoming a great musician than with his sharing his fame and glory with a radiant bride.

The tears just slopped over as though no resistance of any sort were possible. Anna-Rose stared at her a moment horror-struck. "Look here, Anna-F.," she exclaimed, wrath in her voice, "I won't have you be sentimental I won't have you be sentimental...." And then she too began to cry. Well, once having hopelessly disgraced and exposed themselves, there was nothing for it but to take Mr.

Yet he soon found his true amities in books, as afterwards in life, not among the clever, smart, or sentimental, but among the simple and the great. He read and reread Shakespeare and the Bible, not because they were the merely proper things to read but because his spirit was akin to theirs. This meant that he never was a bookworm.

The difficulty of establishing the proposition referred to may indeed be great it is well known that Schopenhauer also was unsuccessful in his efforts; and whoever has thoroughly realized how absurdly false and sentimental this proposition is, in a world whose essence is Will to Power, may be reminded that Schopenhauer, although a pessimist, ACTUALLY played the flute... daily after dinner: one may read about the matter in his biography.

They are the offspring of our affected and falsely sentimental times, and deserve not immortality. Away with them! A new day shall begin for me, or I shall hide my head in bitter solitude, despising my race, who applaud the juggler, and turn away in coldness from the veritable artiste."

Then I will go with you, if you are still in existence, my sentimental little friend. We will dream again the old impractical, foolish dreams and laugh at them." So he would fade away, and in his place would nod to me approvingly a businesslike-looking, wide-awake young fellow. But to one sentimental temptation I succumbed.