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The subject fills a great place in his novels; he approaches it with an unflinching boldness, and a most penetrating gaze; yet he never succeeds in giving a really satisfactory presentment of the highest of those relations love. That eluded him: its essence was too subtle, too private, too transcendental. No one can describe love who has not the makings of a poet in him.
"You are refreshing," he said, "very, especially to a man who has seen stout and elderly females sit in that same chair and state their conviction that they were destined to be George Eliots or Charlotte Brontes, women who had written one improper or irreligious novel, which had obtained a certain success in the foolish circles." "Do you think I have," asked Eve, "the the makings of an income?"
"Revenge!" said the General, a flash jumping to his eyes, then dying away. "I would not have said that, Colin; I would not have said that. It is the phrase of a rough, quarrelsome young soldier, and we are elders who should be long by with it." "Anyhow," said the Cornal, "here's the makings of a hero."
"There's the makings of a fine man in him if we give him but a shove in the right direction. He baffles me to comprehend, and yet" this a little shamefacedly "and yet I've brought him to my evening prayers. I would like guidance on the laddie. With him it's a spoon made or a horn spoiled.
With his mistake Fate raised the curtain, and on the horizon of several lives arose a cloud no bigger than a man's hand. Geoffrey Horner lived before his time, insomuch as he was a gentleman-Radical. He was clever, and the world heeded not. He was brilliant, well educated, capable of great achievements, and the world refused to be astonished. Here were the makings of a malcontent.
He struggled at first against the indignity, but, soon realizing its futility, lay inert on the bottom of the boat. "Good judgment, Peter," said the slaver, looking down at him. "It's never wise to struggle against a certainty. You've the makings of a fine officer in you." The two resumed their oars, and the boat, turning abruptly, as Robert had surmised it would, went down the stream.
"It don't matter," answered the gallant. "Pretty women always look best that way, with their hair flying and their arms bare." "You mean that, really?" "I certainly do!" "Then you've got the temperament and makings of a married man." "I have?" "Sure!" "How's that?"
It must not, however, be supposed that cannon was deemed necessary to quell the ardent spirits of Pallas. The guns were left at Limerick, and only the waggons brought as a means of conveyance for the makings of the hut. But the Limerick contingent was imposing nevertheless.
He took a wonderful fancy to me, Bannon did; I really was appointed first-lieutenant in Greggs' stead.... So you first won my sympathy by laughing at my offer," said Wertheimer, restoring the oil-can to its place in the tool-kit; "wherein you were very wise.... In fact, my personal feeling for you is one of growing esteem, if you'll permit me to say so. You've most of the makings of a man.
A quick ear and eye, an ability to discern the infinite suggestiveness of common things, a brooding meditative spirit, are all that the essayist requires to start business with. Jacques, in "As You Like It," had the makings of a charming essayist.
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