I used to think these, our present days of steam and progress, quite unfit for heroes; I used to long for olden times again, when, by one great deed, a man made a great name." His eyes shone with new fire as he looked at her; it seemed to him that he had found his other soul at last.

His mother laughed at him; Marion Hautville was sarcastic to him, but this beautiful woman--this magnificent queen at whose feet men bowed--she not only sympathized with him, but she had the self-same ideas.
"The great thing that I complain of," said Lady Amelie, "is that there really seems in these days nothing to do.

You, for instance, supposing that you were ambitious, how would you distinguish yourself ?" And as she asked the question, my lady gave a sidelong look at her victim and was charmed to see the progress she had made..