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About a year after that it began to be thought singular how he picked up in health, and Madeline's mother and sister occasionally romanced about the possibility of his recovering and marrying her after all they had an enormous opinion of the artistic virtue of forgiveness but it was not a contingency ever seriously contemplated by Miss Anderson herself.
The lady might have romanced indeed, with glib falseness gilding picturesque invention, and he would not have detected it. As it was, the truth remained sufficiently high coloured. He listened, he apprehended, but he could not see that it mattered.
Then, the next time they met she was abashed with the recollection of having unwarrantably romanced the plain, simple, homely little man, and she added an embarrassment of her own to that shyness of his which kept them apart. Except for what she had heard Putney say, and what she learned casually from the people themselves, she could not have believed he ever did anything for them.
Walpole once said of him, happily, that 'he romanced with his usual veracity. Hazlitt thought a 'mystic' character was common to artists, instancing Loutherbourg, Sharp, Varley, Blake, and others, 'who seemed to relieve the literalness of their professional studies by voluntary excursions into the regions of the preternatural, to pass their time between sleeping and waking, and whose ideas were like a stormy night with the clouds driven rapidly across, and the blue sky and stars gleaming between.
She knew that as a general rule there are feeble and ridiculous beginnings to all excellence, but she never applied general rules to her own case, still thinking of herself as an exception to them, just as she had done when she romanced about Smilash. The illusions of adolescence were thick upon her. Meanwhile her progress was creating anxieties in which she had no share.
It represented a man going out into the street, and "pitching into" every person he met with, upon the subject of religion, or starting a conversation and immediately giving it a spiritual twist. I thought then that he was a remarkably ingenious man a wonderful story-teller, to say the least of him. I am inclined to think now that he romanced a little.
The forms like Millet simple but full of knowledge. Ah! he took up a brush, flung it down bitterly, and turned on his heel 'I can draw! but why did no one ever teach me to paint? Eugénie lifted her eyebrows amused at the sudden despair. Lord Findon laughed. He had restrained himself so far with difficulty while these two romanced; and now, bursting with his tidings, he laid a hand on Fenwick:
He smiled with cynicism, not unmixed with sadness; but he was very grateful for the money, and as soon as his fastidious taste would permit he bought him a country-seat. The place gratified all his ideals and dreams for he had romanced about his sometime English possession as he had never dreamed of woman.
Yet, as he had said, it was but a bagatelle, beside the all but mortal wounds, the agonizing neuralgia, the prostrating fever, the torture of bullet-torn nerves, and the scorching fire of inflamed sword-wounds that had in their turn been borne by him in his twelve years of African service things which, to men who have never suffered them, sound like the romanced horrors of an exaggerated imagination; yet things which are daily and quietly borne, by such soldiers of the Algerian Army, as the natural accompaniments of a military life borne, too, in brave, simple, unconscious heroism by men who know well that the only reward for it will be their own self-contentment at having been true to the traditions of their regiment.
With his invariable enthusiasm for subjects that pleased him in his own work, Balzac believed and affirmed that this secret combat waged in a valley of the Indre was as important as the most famous military battle ever fought. Possibly the amount of early personal biography in the book yet a good deal romanced led him to this conviction.
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