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They were never so distinct that he could make out what was said; but each voice unmistakably conveyed character. Friendship between girls is never equal; they may equally love each other, but one must worship and one must suffer worship. Langbourne read the differing temperaments necessary to this relation in the differing voices.
He faced about, saying good-night to the risen men, who responded jovially or respectfully, according to their temperaments, and returned to the cabin where he was, for all they knew, living an idyllic life with the wife he adored and who adored him. He went over, drawn in spite of himself, to the window-seat where Marjorie lay.
The protagonists were two poets of undoubted talent, whose temperaments and tendencies were so diametrically opposed that it seemed as though Providence must have set them down in that raw and inflammable civilization for the express purpose of setting the standing corn of thought on fire. It is difficult, from the sources of Scandinavian opinion, to obtain a sensible impression of Wergeland.
They are persons of the most various temperaments, of the most varied lop-sidedness, of the most various special gifts, and the most various social origins, having only this in common, the ability to add to the current of the world's thought.
Behmen writes on all the four temperaments with the profoundest insight, and with the fullest sympathy; but over the last of the four he exclaims: 'O hear me! for I know well myself what melancholy is!
Lucien was fascinated by the theatre, that first love of all poetic temperaments; the actors and actresses were awe-inspiring creatures; he did not so much as dream of the possibility of crossing the footlights and meeting them on familiar terms.
Whose fault was it? No one's. Marius possessed one of those temperaments which bury themselves in sorrow and there abide; Cosette was one of those persons who plunge into sorrow and emerge from it again.
And after a moment, given to letting the notion get quite home with her, she asked, vividly, "Would you let me use it?" "The phrase? Why, certainly. But wouldn't it be rather too psychological? I think just Seeing Ghosts would be better." "Better than Seeing Ghosts: A Study of Temperaments? Perhaps it would. It would be simpler."
All night we are occupied according to our individual temperaments. Some are able to sleep even in such a racket. The great majority of us are writing letters. There are always a few last things to be said to the home-folks, a few small possessions we want to will in special ways. We hand our letters to an officer or to some special chum.
However, as he died of a tumor in the head at the age of thirty-five, he probably acknowledged his mistake in the agonies of death. There is no such thing as a perfectly happy or perfectly unhappy man in the world. One has more happiness in his life and another more unhappiness, and the same circumstance may produce widely different effects on individuals of different temperaments.
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