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At a modern school, if it is well conducted, all heroics or exceptional feats are discouraged. Pupils who want to do wild things must be sternly repressed, even if only for the common good. The aim is to train a certain number of pupils, not hastening over the tuition but giving each man his full and complete course, and to do this with a minimum of risk.
For there was I know not what about this child that seemed to take me in its toils, and so wrought upon me that there and then I would have risked my life in her good service. Oh, you may laugh who read. Indeed, deep down in my heart I laughed myself, I think, at the heroics to which I was yielding I, the Fool, most base of lacqueys over a damsel of the noble House of Santafior.
"Tush, boy!" murmured my uncle Jervas, lounging gracefully against the balustrade of the terrace again, "Tush and fiddle-de-dee! If you have done with these heroics, let us get to our several beds like common-sense beings," and he yawned behind a white and languid hand. His words stung me, I will own; but it was not so much these that wrought me to sudden, cold fury, as that contemptuous yawn.
With loyal comrades such as these, even the impossible might be accomplished. Very quietly, without heroics, the three men shook hands. Nothing more, yet they knew that they were bound indissolubly together, as long as there was a gasp of breath in any of them. Hilary's brain functioned with racing smoothness. In minutes the Mercutians would be back.
I saw through you at once; all your heroics were a fraud. I was not your friend, but your protégé something to practise your chivalry on. You dropped your cloak, and I saw your feet of clay.
A man in your frame of mind isn't a good investment for Ford, Wetherbee & Co." Starratt was still quivering with unleashed heroics. "The recommendation is coming to me," he returned, coldly. "The month's salary isn't. I'll take what I've earned and not a penny more." "Very well; suit yourself there." Mr.
She laughed at his heroics. "Put that in your play," said she. "But this isn't the melodrama of the stage. It's the farce comedy of life." "How you have changed! Has all the sweetness, all the womanliness, gone out of your character?" She showed how little she was impressed. "I've learned to take terrible things really terrible things without making a fuss or feeling like making a fuss.
"That imperturbable humour in the face of adverse circumstances for which our soldiers are renowned." "You are a great believer in heroics, Don Pickwixote," said the young lady. "What would life be without them?" returned Mr. Lavender. "The war could not go on for a minute." "You're right there," said the young lady bitterly. "You surely," said Mr.
Finally, when they tell you in mock heroics, appropriated from the great days of the anti-slavery struggle for the cause now of a pinchbeck Washington, that no results of the irrevocable past two years are settled, that not even the title to our new possessions is settled, and never will be until it is settled according to their notions, you can answer that then the title to Massachusetts is not settled, nor the title to a square mile of land in most of the States from ocean to ocean.
At the age of eleven he was turning Virgil into very readable English heroics. He loved the study of Greek; was fond of reading history and given to the frequent writing of verses. But he thinks "the idle books under the bench at the Latin School" were as profitable to him as his regular studies. Another glimpse of him is that given us by Mr. Ireland from the "Boyhood Memories" of Rufus Dawes.
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