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The little boy prayed that this hero might be made again the man he once was; not because of any flaw that he could see in him but only because the sufferer appeared somewhat less than perfect to himself. To Bernal's mind, indeed, nothing could have been superior to the noble melancholy with which Cousin Bill J. looked back upon his splendid past. There was a perfect dignity in it.
Nothing is more remarkable in the political treatises of Machiavelli than the fairness of mind which they indicate. It appears where the author is in the wrong, almost as strongly as where he is in the right. He never advances a false opinion because it is new or splendid, because he can clothe it in a happy phrase, or defend it by an ingenious sophism.
The girl clasped her hands round her knees. "And I should never have to see you again?" in a glad voice of comprehension. Michael leaned forward nearer to her. "Well no never, unless you wished." Miss Delburg actually kicked her feet with delight. "It is a perfectly splendid suggestion," she announced. "We could just oblige one another in this way, and need never see or speak to each other again.
"Certainly not. For a man with that splendid talent to bury it behind a counter, mitigated by a common church organ, is as remarkable as absurd; though he seems to thrive on it. It is a treat to see such innocent rapture, all genuine too!" "You worn-out old man!" laughed Anna. "Aunt Cherry has always said that self-abnegation is the secret of Uncle Lance's charm."
The fat, stumpy corporal, with his enormously broad pantaloons and automaton legs, went down to the fountain with his musket, and after taking a rest and sighting full five minutes, fired at a dove without hitting it. He afterwards joined us in a social pipe, and we sat on a carpet at the door of the guard-house, watching the splendid moonrise through the pine boughs.
On their way the pilgrims tell tales, and these are as various as their relaters; in fact, the Prologue is the soil out of which they all grow. Dramatic propriety is everywhere instinctively preserved. "The Knight's Tale" is noble, splendid, and chivalric as his own nature; the tale told by the Wife of Bath is exactly what one would expect.
"I am glad to hear it." "Glad? Why?" "It proves that he means business." "Of course he means business." "I wonder if he knows I am to build a yacht for Mr. Norwood, in case I win this race." "I don't believe he does. I never heard of it till you told me." "He is such a splendid fellow, that I was afraid he would let me beat him, if he knew I was to make anything by it."
But I am not going to be so sensitive as to feel hurt and run off and cry; we are too good friends for that, as you've just said, Mr. Longstreet. And I did so want to ask you some questions; I sent right away for the books you told me of, and I am simply mad over them. And I got one of yours, too; the one on south-western desert formations. It is the most splendid thing I ever read.
And the splendid ploughshare glides along beneath the stars.... We found a barn at last, at a farmstead where all was still, and there we slept some hours. They found us next morning sound asleep. Falkenberg went up to the farmer at once and offered to pay for our lodging.
I had a sort of wild idea that if I won the prize for that essay Uncle Fred might think it worth while sending me somewhere to train; but I know I shan't get it now. Hilary read us bits out of hers, and it's just splendid far better than mine. I'm not in the innings." "Oh, Loveday, what a shame! The prize means so much more to you than to Hilary." "I know it does.
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