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She was soon half asleep, and the flames, moving off into the distance, seemed to be dancing about in a queer, light-minded fashion. Harley walked to the window and looked out. The night was black, save for the driving snow, and when he glanced back at the room it seemed a very haven of delight.
"What had happened? How could that light-minded woman have so deeply wounded my father?" Anna asked in bewilderment. "If she was merely light-minded!" her husband answered, shrugging his shoulders. "But she is so malicious, so crafty, and so daring that anything may be expected from her." "But in that case there would be an open scandal. We would know something for certain.
There are many light-minded persons who have not felt much of the power of faith, who fall in this matter, stumbling upon it; and they trouble themselves at first with it, and by reason would satisfy themselves whether they are elected, so that they may be assured whereon they stand. But if you will be assured, you must reach it by the way which St. Peter here strikes out for you.
"There's nothing like a word about retribution when a person's sick. It helps 'em to realise their state. I don't hold with the light-minded that want to get away from retribution. Depend upon it, they're the very folks that's got it coming to them. Yes. No one needs to go around denying that there's a hell, if their feet are planted upon a rock and they know they're never going there.
The high-priest repelled the suspicion with his usual dignity, and went on to adjure Caesar not to visit on an industrious and dutiful community the sins of a light-minded girl's base folly and falsehood. But Caracalla would not suffer him to finish; he wrathfully inquired who had given him a right to force his advice on Caesar.
What did the Delawares say of the hussy? for an Indian, after all, has his notions of woman-kind, as well as a white man." "They said she was fair to look on, and pleasant of speech; but over-given to admirers, and light-minded." "They are devils incarnate!
But the world's gone round since then, Jane. Even chapel-folk read these light-minded fictions nowadays, and don't seem to be stumblin' about more than usual. 'If they take no harm, their own consciences must be their guide; but I've a right to judge for myself as well as they, I think, Solomon. 'Exactly, but not for them too that's what you're doin', Jane.
For the music spoke separately to each heart, roused up the secrets hidden there, fanned dying hopes or silent longings. It made the light-hearted lighter in heart, the light-minded heavy in soul. Where there was a glimpse of heaven, it opened the heavens wider; where there was already hell, it made the abysses gape deeper.
All those fond ties which united men and women, parents and children, have been shaken, or torn apart; all contracts are destroyed or undermined. In order to endure, to live through these fearful seven years, every one gave himself up to frivolity the terrible consequence is, that the whole world has become light-minded and frivolous. We do not look upon life with the same eyes as formerly.
"She was," he said, "a woman naturally courageous and fearless; naturally gentle and good; not easily excited; clever and penetrating, seeing things very clearly in her mind, and expressing herself well and in few but careful words; easily finding a way out of a difficulty, and choosing her line of conduct in the most embarrassing circumstances; light-minded and fickle; unstable, paying no attention if the same thing were said several times over.
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