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Afterwards he read Goldsmith's "Deserted Village," and he formed a great passion for Pope's "Pastorals," which he imitated in their easy heroics; but till he came to read Longfellow, and Tennyson, and Heine, he never read any long poem without more fatigue than pleasure.
"I offer you a home and a good one. Refuse, and you work for your living, my girl! You've forfeited your legacy " "I know, I know," she told him in cold disdain. "I am content. Won't you be kind enough to leave me alone?" For a breath, Calendar glowered over her; then, "I presume," he observed, "that all these heroics are inspired by that whipper-snapper, Kirkwood.
There were no heroics, no chest-pounding, no suggestion of romantically blighted lives and broken hearts. "That means, of course, that I'll have to climb out," Peter finally and very prosaically remarked. "Why?" I asked. "Because it's so apt to leave one of us sailing under false colors," was his somewhat oblique way of explaining the situation.
It was during the mid-passage pause, and while she was looking down on the swirling waters sometime of terrifying, that Miss Dabney said: "How deep is it, Tom? Would I really have drowned if you and Hector had not pulled me out?" He laughed. "It's a thankless thing to spoil an idyl, isn't it? But that is the way with all the little playtime heroics we leave behind in childhood.
He suffered. He was disgusted with what he had to say. It was too much like heroics. In him the strictly practical instinct was in profound discord with the almost mystic view he took of his right. The Gould Concession was symbolic of abstract justice. Let the heavens fall.
The cheerful Frenchwoman had gone through life with the belief that it is better, on the whole, to make oneself comfortable in this world, if it can be managed on honest principles, than to worry oneself about heroics, and in the calm recesses of her practical little soul she was sure that, in Angela's place, she would have told Giovanni to resign as soon as possible and find some pleasant and well-paid occupation for his married life.
"Oh, don't go into heroics!" he said. "You'd curse everything and everybody, if you were in the plight I am. And look here, you've got to help me. You and the old man have been getting on better than I expected; if he hasn't taken a downright fancy to you, he's got used to you and treats you civilly. Can't you give him a hint about the diamonds? See here!"
"There no heroics, please," said she. "You are a dear little fellow; and don't go and be jealous, for he shan't have her. He would never ask me to his house, you know. Now I think you would perhaps who knows? Tell me, fascinating monster, are you going to be ungrateful?" "Not to you. My home would always be yours; and you know it."
And he was conscious that his own ways and customs were no less teasing to Radowitz; his Tory habits of thought, his British contempt for vague sentimentalisms and heroics, for all that panache means to the Frenchman, or "glory" to the Slav. "Then why, in the name of common sense, are we living together?"
Heroics are no good; after all, we are man and woman it's better to leave it at that and accept the future quietly." He spoke coldly and calmly, indeed he was surprised that he could face it like that, but his one thought was for peace, to put this spectre that had haunted him these ten days behind him and watch the world again with a straight gaze he must have no secrets.
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