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You will rather communicate to me what your keen and unerring glance has discovered here." "It is true," said Lord Douglas, sadly. "I now sometimes become loquacious a sure sign that I am growing old. I have, by no means, come here to speak of the past, but of the present. Let us, then, speak of it.
And again and most important, she loves them tenderly, and from love flows wisdom. Usually the mother gives her own children a love far beyond that given by anyone else, and this deeper love sharpens her intellectual faculties and makes her both a keen observer and a good tactician.
The process is unconscious, or at least but semi-conscious; for your professed observer has never that keen insight which, being native, is not to be acquired by even the most assiduous practice, and alone permits of truthful analysis. In the making of the genuine humorist the faculty of observation is the first necessity.
The book is full of Behmen's observation of men. It is the outcome of a close and long-continued study of character and conduct. Every page of The Four Complexions gleams with a keen but tender and wistful insight into our poor human nature.
Of our camel-men, some were Bedouin and some were negroes, and we found them on the whole honest and obliging, though with the usual keen eye for a possible bakshish, which is not uncommon elsewhere.
It was, in some respects, as great a loss to me as to him how great to us both I did not indeed, could not measure until several years passed. She was what I regard as a typical American wife devoted to her husband, jealously guarding his interests, yet as keen to see his shortcomings as she was to see her own.
And we pusht forward at a new speed, and had many bitter falls, so that we did be all bruised; but not to know it at that time, because that our fear did be so keen. And oft we made a little pause and harkt; but there did be only the dismal drip of water from on high; and presently the murmur of the night, that told that we drew near unto a new firepit.
They had but little to work on, as Pasche had never revealed to anyone the whereabouts of his traps. However, Indian eyes are sharp, and so, unknown to him, keen hunters had observed his doings, and could tell the locality of every one of his traps and snares.
Having a keen woman's understanding, I wondered if this apparent ignoring of the lady's presence was not what first caused her keen interest in the young man, for Eileen was not accustomed to being ignored.
To us he was a subject of contemplation and astonishment; for the young which of us has not known it? the young have a keen craving to admire; they love to attach themselves, and are naturally inclined to submit to the men they feel to be superior, as they are to devote themselves to a great cause.
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