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Educated and brought up among the conflicting tastes and views of her parents and her aunt, she had imbibed some of the characteristics of each, although in widely different degrees. At that time, perhaps, the various traits which were united in her had not yet blended harmoniously so as to form a satisfactory whole.
SHE had never been controlled or made to yield to others in thoughtful consideration of their rights and feelings, and did not know how to instil the lesson; therefore so inconsistent is human nature when she saw him developing her own traits, she was troubled because his ambitions differed from her own.
"Still," said Brock, "with what daring they fight for their homes." "True, Colonel," retorted Henry, "but when it comes to fighting for home, a hummingbird will defend its nest. Their peculiar traits are largely the result of a nomadic life and tribal strife, hence, their duplicity. Superstition influences them greatly, as it does all savage races.
But you need not be afraid that anybody will mistake you for him, even if you do wear a patched garment." "I believe you think Ben. Wright is a little angel," said Oscar, who never liked to hear his humble but diligent classmate praised. "I think he has some traits that you would do well to imitate," replied his mother.
Was that in truth a picture of his son, of the boy whom he had loved and watched over and so zealously hoped for? Possibly he wronged Dyce, for the young man's mind and heart had long ceased to be clearly legible to him. "Worst, perhaps, of all these frequent traits is the affectation of to use a silly word altruism.
In like manner, groups of nations, each characterized by distinctive traits derived from affinities of race or of religion, or from other sources, act on each other, and thus help to determine the course of the historic stream. SCOPE OF HISTORY. The rise and progress of culture and civilization in their various constituents is the theme of history.
So they will, very probably; but my curiosity is excited about this little boarder of ours, and my reader must not be disappointed, if I sometimes interrupt a discussion to give an account of whatever fact or traits I may discover about him. It so happens that his room is next to mine, and I have the opportunity of observing many of his ways without any active movements of curiosity.
He has four traits which show themselves more or less clearly in all of his acts."
It was too common an object to excite in his mind, as it did in Redclyffe's, visions of the long ago time when it was founded, when mass was first said there, and the glimmer of torches at the altar was seen through the vista of that broad-browed porch; and of all the procession of villagers that had since gone in and come out during nine hundred years, in their varying costume and fashion, but yet and this was the strongest and most thrilling part of the idea all, the very oldest of them, bearing a resemblance of feature, the kindred, the family likeness, to those who died yesterday, to those who still went thither to worship; and that all the grassy and half-obliterated graves around had held those who bore the same traits.
When all were gathered together the guide told them that they were about to enter an Indian country, and that the dusky residents did not always fancy the idea of strangers richer than themselves passing through, and sometimes showed out some of the bad traits the Indians had been said to possess. It would therefore be better to organize and travel systematically.
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