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Updated: May 6, 2025
Under such circumstances, while ringing some quarts of water out of our clothes, or from the blankets in which we had slept, there was no disposition to sentimentalise about the rippling of the waves on the shore or the distant waterfall. However, in spite of its hardships and dangers, the results accomplished more than compensated for them all.
He burned all Miss Van Tromp's letters, and her photograph but, from habit, or from gratitude, he kissed it before he burned it. "Now," said he as the last sparks died redly on the black embers, "the decks are cleared for action. Shall I sentimentalise about Betty cold, cruel, changed Betty or shall I call for the Jasmine lady?" He did both, and the Jasmine lady might have found him dull.
Warmly and ably did he denounce the pernicious effect of those plays, that take the wanton for a heroine and sentimentalise her into a morbid attractiveness. The stage should show life, and the wanton, being of life, might be portrayed; but let it be with ruthless fidelity.
What right had he to sentimentalise a marriage founded on such base connivances, and how could he have imagined that in so doing he was acting a disinterested part? While these thoughts were passing through his mind the ceremony had already begun, and the principal personages in the drama were ranged before him in the row of crimson velvet chairs which fills the foreground of a Catholic marriage.
You must go on filling up with experience; but it doesn't matter where or how you get it, as long as it is eagerly done. Be on the side of life! Amor fati, that's the motto for a man to love his destiny passionately, and all that is before him; not to droop, or sentimentalise, or submit, but to plunge on, like a 'sea-shouldering whale'! You remember old Kit Smart
Trojan," she said, laughing, "you are intensely serious. Last week I thought that my heart was broken; but now well, it takes a lot to break a heart. I am sure that you will be glad to hear that my appetite has returned. As to the letters why, think how pleasant it will be for me to sentimentalise over them in my old age! Surely, that is sufficient motive."
"It is much pleasanter," I remarked sententiously "to sentimentalise over the fringes of the United Kingdom from a safe distance, than to live in them." "Oh! Let me see, I had got as far as Paris. When I was old enough I went to a convent school there. I speak French rather better than I do the Irish-English which my mother taught me." "You speak English most charmingly.
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