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Do you imagine that the danger is over?" "My dear Rachael," he answered, coming over to her, "I have come to the conclusion that I was over-timid. There is no success in life to be won without daring. Money we must have, and these places are like a gold mine to us. If things go wrong, we must take our chance. I am content.
He might, indeed, have begun to think Anne over-timid and his fears unwarranted, if he had not seen, a little before sunset, a thing which opened his eyes. Two women and some children came out of a house not far from the bastion. They passed towards the Tertasse Gate, and he watched them.
Mainwaring's conscience still smote him, but he had not the strength to resist the energy of Lucretia. The force of her character seized upon the weak part of his own, its gentleness, its fear of inflicting pain, its reluctance to say "No," that simple cause of misery to the over-timid.
Men good men are so often over-timid when courage would be best. Be bold, Eustace; respect your own love; do not be too proud to show it to offer it! Her voice died away into silence, only Eustace still felt the caressing touch of the thin fingers clasped round his.
Hence, too, this poverty of blood makes them over-timid to stand up against the sword, but great heat and fevers they can endure without timidity, because their frames are bred up in the raging heat. Hence, men that are born in the north are rendered over-timid and weak by fever, but their wealth of blood enables them to stand up against the sword without timidity.
By character, and perhaps by the necessities of my career, I am over-timid to public opinion, public scandal. Forgive me. Say if in anything now I can requite, though but slightly, the service I owe you." De Mauleon looked steadily at the Prefet, and said slowly, "Would you serve me in turn? Are you sincere?" The Prefet hesitated a moment, then answered firmly, "Yes."
But on her way across the courtyard she met Mord, and he was a great friend of hers. "Whither now, nurse? They will not let you go out of the palace. They say that there is trouble on hand with those folk that fell on us, and we have to bide in shelter for a day or two." "Well, I have been down the town this hour, and all is quiet enough. This Alsi is an over-timid man.
By character, and perhaps by the necessities of my career, I am over-timid to public opinion, public scandal. Forgive me. Say if in anything now I can requite, though but slightly, the service I owe you." De Mauleon looked steadily at the Prefet, and said slowly, "Would you serve me in turn? Are you sincere?" The Prefet hesitated a moment, then answered firmly, "Yes."
Today we may go out and stumble upon a lion which is over-timid he runs away from us. To-morrow we may meet his uncle or his twin brother, and our friends wonder why we do not return from the jungle. For myself, I always assume that a lion is ferocious, and so I am never caught off my guard."
To the over-sanguine and the over-timid this seemed to foreshadow the rapid passage of Home Rule, and, bad as are the terms of the Act of 1909, they are estimated to be better than any obtainable after the Union has been thrown on the scrap-heap of the Constitution. One other comparison may be noted.
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