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If Eugene had been ten or fifteen years older, the result might have been suicide. A shade of difference in temperament might have resulted in death, murder, anything.
Hearing them as I did, with the very splash of the surf and the bubble of the tides in my ears, they made a profound impression on me, and gave me the very zeal for our work he, by temperament, possessed. But as the days passed and nothing occurred to disturb us, I felt more and more strongly that, as regards our quest, we were on the wrong tack.
None but driveling idiots could spend time in inquiring into all that is happening around them, whether Madame Such-an-One slept single on her couch or in company, whether she has more blood than lymph, more temperament than virtue.
His ardent temperament, therefore, was checked by a certain rational or conventional propriety, so that he was by no means a loose liver, as many would make him out to be.
Philip knew that he was flirting with Mildred, and he was horribly jealous of him; but he took comfort in the coldness of her temperament, which otherwise distressed him; and, thinking her incapable of passion, he looked upon his rival as no better off than himself.
No adventurous spirits had located themselves beside him, and only a few had come within several miles of his habitation. This did not suit our hero's sociable temperament, and he began to despond very much.
He had a strong sense of responsibility, with a temperament made up of tenderness, refinement, and inertness, such as shrank from the career set before him. He had seen just enough of political life to destroy any romance of patriotism, and to make him regard it as little more than party spirit, and dread the hardening and deadening process on the mind.
I came into the library, unknown to you both. You were still in the chair you heard nothing. He stooped over you. I heard what he said. I saw his face. Lucy! there are terrible risks not to you but to him in driving a temperament like his to despair. You know how he lives by feeling, by imagination how much of the artist, of the poet, there is in him.
"Why, we shall be detained, of course; arrested, probably certainly detained. Examined, cross-examined, bully-ragged I know something of the French police and their ways." "If they stop us, I shall write to the Times" cried his brother, by profession a man of peace, but with a choleric eye that told of an angry temperament. "By all means, my dear Silas, when you get the chance.
There were exceptions, and these had joy in what they saw and felt according to the measure of their temperament.