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She concerned herself with judging him sorrowfully, exonerating him in part because Helena, that other, was so much more to blame. Frank, as a sentimentalist, wept over the situation, not over the personae. The children were acutely distressed by the harassing behaviour of the elders, and longed for a restoration of equanimity. By common consent no word was spoken of Siegmund.
On the contrary, people who did not know him well said "that he had more head than heart," and the character of his pursuits, as of his writings, was certainly not that of a sentimentalist. He had not thus visited the tomb till Richard King had been placed within it. Yet his love for his aunt was unspeakably greater than that which he could have felt for her husband.
But that was not it a bit... Along with Edward's passions and his shame for them went the violent conviction of the duties of his station a conviction that was quite unreasonably expensive. I trust I have not, in talking of his liabilities, given the impression that poor Edward was a promiscuous libertine. He was not; he was a sentimentalist.
"I understand you you mean to kill him poor Dick! the only pet we ever had." She broke right down at this, and began to cry. "What is the matter here?" said our kind, energetic neighbor, Mrs. T , who came in to pay us one of her informal visits. She was from Philadelphia, and, though a gifted woman, with a wide range of reading and observation of human life, was not a sentimentalist.
He was in fact not a philosopher, but a sentimentalist. "If mother doesn't think it's sensible, why do it, father?" asked Zoe anxiously, looking up into her father's face. She had seen the look in her mother's eyes, and also she had no love for her grandfather.
The Elder Brother, at Tadmor, used to say it was sympathy. But he is a sentimentalist. Well, Mr. Farnaby presented me to his wife and then walked away as if he was sick of us both, and looked out of the window. For some reason or other, Mrs. Farnaby seemed to be surprised, for the moment, by my personal appearance. Her husband had, very likely, not told her how young I was.
Then the conversation began to flow. Mrs. Copperas was a fine lady, and a sentimentalist, very observant of the little niceties of phrase and manner. Mr. Copperas was a stock-jobber and a wit, loved a good hit in each capacity; was very round, very short, and very much like a John Dory; and saw in the features and mind of the little Copperas the exact representative of himself.
The sentimentalist is as averse as the Puritan and as the Bacchanalian. Our traditions are unfortunate. The public taste is with the idle laughers, and still inclines to follow them.
In greeting Herakles he rises to a manlier strain, puts tears away, and accepts the realities of life and death; he will not add ill to ill, as the sentimentalist does, but will be just to the rights of earth that remain; he catches some genuine strength from the magnanimous presence of the hero-god.
There is a very strong disposition in all the European countries to believe America fundamentally indifferent to the rights and wrongs of the European struggle; sentimentally interested perhaps, but fundamentally indifferent. President Wilson is regarded as a mere academic sentimentalist by a great number of Europeans.
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