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The fast young men go to clubs, and the fast young women to dances, as fast young men and women do in other places that are wicked; but lecturing is the favorite diversion of the steady-minded Bostonian. After all, I do not know that the result is very good.
Last evening mamma and papa had gone out to call on a friend, and we were quite alone " How much was volatile temperament and the love of pursuit, and how much the deeper regard? Let him do his young brother justice. "Charlie is young, to be sure, but he is a very steady-minded fellow, and his mother's and Tudie's death brought them together in a very sympathetic manner.
When He would -Strong of heart and steady-minded Step on the gallows -stept he on the lofty gallows; Fore all Mankind fearless spite that crowd of faces; Mindfast, fearless -free and save man's tribes he would there. Bow me durst I not -Bever'd I and shook when that baron claspt me . . . . . . . . . but dar'd I not to bow me earthward . . . . . . . . . -Rood was I reared now.
"Better so than be a cut-throat sword-and-buckler fellow, ever slaying some one else or getting thyself slain a terror to all peaceful folk. But thine uncle will see to that a steady-minded lad always was he was Master Dick."
He was from first to last the consistent friend of struggling patriots, sincere, honest, incorruptible, with horror of revolutionary excesses, as sentimental as Lamartine, yet as firm as Carnot. Lafayette took an active part in the popular movements in 1787, and in 1789 formed the National Guard and gave it the tricolor badge. But he was too consistent and steady-minded for the times.
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