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Perhaps he would have granted that destructive principles are pregnant with human interest in the abstract, but his intelligence certainly was not challenged by these dark systems of activity. He saw that even if his mind were not held in anguish, he lacked the equipment to cope with Pleiad affairs.
'Why did she poison? Had she not enough dates and wine? 'She had, yes: but she wanted more, more, more, the silly idiot. 'So that the vices and climes were not confined to those that lacked things, but were done by the others, too? 'By the others chiefly. 'Then I see how it was! 'How was it? 'The others had got spoiled.
These men, one and all, seemed to be up to the neck in life, kept young and human by the taste of it upon their palate. The contemplation of their whole-sided existence, their sound combination of work and play, produced in him a sort of jealousy, for he knew that there was something behind it, which he lacked.
Amy was the only one who had seen the music before, and she was the only one who particularly wanted to make music now. She slid her bow across the strings with tasteful passion. She enjoyed still more than her own tones the tones of Cope's voice, tones which, whether in happy unison with hers or not, were, after all, seldom misplaced, whatever they may have lacked in heartiness and confidence.
And on he went, pounding out the last fifteen miles, the canvas bag beating safely against his side. Judith, in the courtyard, watched him ride in. She looked swiftly at him from the watch on her wrist. Her eyes brightened. It lacked seven minutes to six. As Bud dropped the canvas bag into her hands she flashed at him the most wonderful, radiant smile that the long horseman had ever seen.
Bingham, although he had just determined to give the Doctor a bit of his mind, felt his strength depart from him. His sentences lacked power to stand upright and fell sprawling. "No offence, Doctor, I merely wanted you to know not so much my own views difficulty to keep our friends together. Short you know Tom Short was saying to me he was afraid " "Pay no attention to fools. Good morning."
His friends themselves secretly acknowledged, that, with very fine natural powers, he had not spent his younger years in sufficient activity; for which reason he never went so far as to practise his art with perfect technicality. Yet a certain diligence appeared to be reserved for his old age; and, during the many years which I knew him, he never lacked invention or laboriousness.
This had been a well-known signal in old times when Wildeve had used to come secretly wooing to Mistover. She at once knew that Wildeve was outside, but before she could consider what to do her husband came in from upstairs. Eustacia's face burnt crimson at the unexpected collision of incidents, and filled it with an animation that it too frequently lacked.
Eugenia looked around the elegantly furnished room with a discontented sigh. No girl in the school had as much spending money as herself, or as wealthy and as indulgent a father, and yet just at that moment she felt herself the poorest child in New York. There was one thing she lacked that even the poorest beggar had, she thought bitterly, companionship.
To challenge the wilderness; to strike blindly at the forest, now here, now there; to dare all, and know that it was hopeless daring, a madman might do this for love. But it was only Haward's fancy that had been touched, and if he lacked not courage, neither did he lack a certain cool good sense which divided for him the possible from that which was impossible, and therefore not to be undertaken.
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