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Never was there a more grotesque ride for life. Instead of the beautiful heroine of fiction galloping on a noble steed here was a lanky girl riding backwards on a temperamental trick mule, hanging on as best she could, holding her breath as he pounded along in the darkness, expecting every moment that he would go down under her and praying fervently that he would not take it into his head to stop.
The reasonable chances are that in the lapse of a few æons I should find eternity hanging heavy on my hands. But it isn't that, exactly, and it would be hard to say what my objection to immortality exactly is. It would be simpler to say what it really is. It is personal, temperamental, congenital.
But he didn't seem to mind the meddling in the least. He stood at ease, and plausibly put his case. "Why don't I? Or why doesn't my uncle? My uncle is a temperamental conservative, a devotee to his traditions the sort of man who will never do anything that hasn't been the constant habit of his forebears.
He must have seen exciting things in France, but it is only by the merest chance that one ever realises that he has been even near the Front. He is so silent, so secretive." Lady Conyers took up her knitting. "Some men are like that, dear," she remarked. "It is just temperamental. Perhaps you haven't encouraged him to talk." "But I have," Geraldine insisted.
She inferred you had not parted then!" "That was because she was jealous, and is very temperamental. I had thought that quality was confined to her class." I too can hit hard when I am insulted! Alathea flashed at me. She was beginning to realize that she was at a disadvantage. "You are not unutterably shocked that I should have had a friend, are you?" Her face grew contemptuous.
It was as though he had been forced thither by a resistless fate which there was no eluding for, on his own confession, he had deliberately sought to avoid meeting her again. His whole attitude was utterly incomprehensible a study of violently opposing contrasts. Diana felt bruised and shaken by the fierce contradictions of his moods, the temperamental heat and ice which he had meted out to her.
And now that we have our conspiracy all nicely conspired, we must hurry to the house before that man arrives with my things." She went for the manuscript as she spoke. "See," she cried, "it is quite dry, and not a bit the worse for its temperamental experience!" She laughed gleefully. "But, Miss Williams," exclaimed Brian, "I I can't understand you! You don't seem to mind.
General Goode still told of paying six dollars and a half for a dinner he had ordered in a hotel in Fifth Avenue, and her temperamental frugality, reinforced by anxiety as to Oliver's debts, preferred to take no unnecessary risks with the small amount in her pocket book.
Behind the experiences of childhood, for example, lie the temperamental trends of childhood, and it is these with which we really need to get acquainted; for these trends, if not the whole causes and equivalents of the experiences which are recounted to us by our patients, constitute the conditions without which the latter would not have been what they became.
"You're a good dog, and a good pal. But put the soft pedal on the temperamental stuff, when you're near Simon Cameron. That's the best recipe for avoiding a scratched nose. By the way, Miss Standish, don't encourage him to roam around in the palmetto scrub, on your outings with him. The rattlesnakes have gotten many a good dog, in Florida. He " "Mr. Brice!" she broke in.
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