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The beauties and graces of the chivalrous character are still what they were, but the rights of the weak, and the general comfort of human life, now rest on a far surer and steadier support; or rather, they do so in every relation of life except the conjugal.
You know his countenance, in which joy or sadness is not betrayed so much by the evidence of the passions as by variations in the intellectual expression. It was but by the clearer brow and the steadier eye that I saw he had good tidings to impart."
A third explanation, founded probably on a steadier basis, was suggested by Miss Henley's remembrance of their first interview. Fanny's nature had revealed a sensitive side, when she was first encouraged to hope for a refuge from ruin followed perhaps by starvation and death. Judging so far from experience, a sound conclusion seemed to follow.
"These center pontoons look rather prominent, as if they'd been pushed upstream a foot or two," he remarked. "Was that done by Captain Maitland's order?" "No, sir," Dick answered with some awkwardness. "For one thing, I found they'd lie steadier out of the eddy." "They do, but I don't know that it's much of an advantage. Had you any other reason for modifying the construction plans?"
Indeed, both might leave it wounded, and the chances of success were with the older man, Mallow, whose experience would give him an advantage. Physically, there was not a vast deal to choose between the two men. Mallow was lank and tall, nervously self-contained, finely concentrated, and vigorous. Dyck was broad of shoulder, well set up, muscular, and with a steadier eye than that of his foe.
Even this list is nothing like complete, but it is impossible to enlarge it. The third son of the celebrated emancipationist and evangelical, he had brothers who were more attracted than himself by the centripetal force of Roman doctrine, and succumbed to it. Worldly perhaps as much as spiritual motives kept him steadier.
I thought it was his name; and that as he lived on board ship and hadn't a street door to put his name on, he put it there instead; but when I called him Mr. Skylark, he said it meant the vessel. I observed all day that Mr. Murdstone was graver and steadier than the two gentlemen. They were very gay and careless. They joked freely with one another, but seldom with him.
"We must have someone here whom we can trust, in case of any special difficulty; and of all the set here Martini is the man in whom I have most confidence. Riccardo would do anything he could for us, of course; but I think Martini has a steadier head. Still, you know him better than I do; it is as you think."
The center of the cyclone had swept far ahead. There was only left the aftermath of heavy seas and furious but steadier wind. Captain Ross entered the charthouse for the twentieth time. He had aged many years in appearance. The smiling, confident, debonair officer was changed into a stricken, mournful man. He had altered with his ship.
She seemed, and to a very great extent she was, unconscious of the interest and curiosity both her work and her personality excited the more so now as the glamour and delight of her creative imagination had been obscured by what she considered a far greater and more lasting glory that of love! the golden mirage of a fancied sun, which for a time had quenched the steadier shining of eternal stars.
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