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For him Urquhart embodied the brilliance of life, its splendidness and beauty and joy. Rodney, with his fanatical tilting at prosperity, would, Peter half consciously knew, have to see Urquhart unhorsed and stripped bare before he would take much notice of him. "Too many things," said Rodney, indistinctly over his thick pipe. "That's all." Peter, irritated, said, "The old story.
"I didn't dream that you felt like that about me." "No, you wouldn't. That's a part of your splendidness. Never taking anything to yourself. Jane, will you believe this that what I may be hereafter will be because of you? If I ever do a big thing or a fine thing it will be because I came upon you that night with your head high and that rabble round you.
Rachael had once seen in this quality a certain godlike supremacy, a bigness, and splendidness of vision that rose above the ordinary standards of ordinary men; now it filled her with uneasiness. "Well," she thought, with a certain desperate philosophy, "in a certain number of months or years this will all be over, and I must simply endure it until that time comes.
That of Brutus was somewhat less in number than that of Caesar, but in the splendidness of the men's arms and richness of their equipage it wonderfully exceeded; for most of their arms were of gold and silver, which Brutus had lavishly bestowed among them.
She hated to think of that struggle in the dark She hated to think of Randy as the Conqueror. She hated to think of George as dank and dripping. She wanted to think of him as shining and splendid, and Randy had spoiled that. But she wanted to be fair. Hadn't George, after all, spoiled his own splendidness? He had wooed her and had run away.
Oh, why hadn't Sister Loretto told her that there were men like this? Why hadn't Aunt Claudia returned in time? In the big box which Mandy had brought up were clothes exquisite things which Becky had ordered from New York. She had thought it a miracle that George should have fallen in love with her believing her poor. It showed, she felt, his splendidness, his kingly indifference to poverty.
She hated to think of that struggle in the dark She hated to think of Randy as the Conqueror. She hated to think of George as dank and dripping. She wanted to think of him as shining and splendid, and Randy had spoiled that. But she wanted to be fair. Hadn't George, after all, spoiled his own splendidness? He had wooed her and had run away.
Oh, why hadn't Sister Loretto told her that there were men like this? Why hadn't Aunt Claudia returned in time? In the big box which Mandy had brought up were clothes exquisite things which Becky had ordered from New York. She had thought it a miracle that George should have fallen in love with her believing her poor. It showed, she felt, his splendidness, his kindly indifference to poverty.
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