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Perhaps, it was just an effort to make up for what she had done in the morning? Maurice, astonished, made some half-hearted protest; he would go back with her? But she said no, and walked home alone. Her throat ached with unshed tears. "He likes to be with her! He doesn't want me, and I love him I love him!" The two youngsters had made a long day of it.
Dennison leaned his face so close that his blond-bearded cheek touched hers. She made a little impatient motion. "Oh, go long, Jim Dennison," she said, but her tone was half-hearted. Dennison persisted, bending her head gently backward until he kissed her. She pushed him away, but she smiled weakly. "You didn't want Ed Flynn. Why, he's a Roman Catholic, and you're Baptist, Nell," he said.
Social instincts, the strong desire to please others and get their approval, social training, the general sense of duty and of authority, apprehension of penalty, all lead to a half-hearted effort to conform, to "pay attention to the lesson," or whatever the requirement is. Amiable individuals want to do what they are expected to do. Consciously the pupil thinks he is doing this.
Some half-hearted steps were taken to accomplish this, in part, by putting the whole matter again in charge of the special Treasury agents. Laws of 1863 and 1864 directed them to take charge of and lease abandoned lands for periods not exceeding twelve months, and to "provide in such leases, or otherwise, for the employment and general welfare" of the freedmen.
The last request-man the man with "private affairs" was a small leading stoker with a face seamed by innumerable tiny wrinkles. His skin resembled a piece of parchment that somebody had crumpled in a fit of petulance and made a half-hearted attempt to smooth out again; even his ears were crumpled. His brown eyes, big and sad, were like the eyes of a suffering monkey.
It is in the long exchange of stove-side talk between Nora and the other woman of "The Doll's House." Signora Duse may have felt some misgivings as to the effect of a dialogue having so little symmetry, such half-hearted feeling, and, in a word, so little visible or audible drama as this. Needless to say, the misgiving is not apparent; what is too apparent is simply the technique.
He remembered then those doubts that had assailed him when this girl had been sentenced to prison, remembered the half-hearted plea he had made in her behalf to Richard Gilder. "That was killed," Mary said, "killed four years ago." But Demarest persisted. Influence had been brought to bear on him. It was for her own sake now that he urged her. "Let young Gilder alone." Mary laughed again.
But he must be a half-hearted philosopher who, believing in that possibility, and having watched the gigantic strides of the biological sciences during the last twenty years, doubts that science will sooner or later make this further step, so as to become possessed of the law of evolution of organic forms of the unvarying order of that great chain of causes and effects of which all organic forms, ancient and modern, are the links.
"No man liveth unto himself alone." We are responsible for the souls of other men. We are also responsible for their service; if we are half-hearted they will surely be. "And the host ran, and cried and fled." What hosts are against us to-day?
By the time they had finished explaining, Alf was dazed; and when invited by Walter to repeat the hit with a view to his being further impressed with its want of style, did so in such half-hearted fashion that Walter had time to step stylishly aside and show Alf how futile it is to be unscientific. To the club this episode was decently buried in an unremembered past.
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