Sheldon knew himself for a brave man, wherefore he made no advertisement of the fact.

He knew that just as readily as the other would he dive among ground-sharks to save a life, but in that fact he could find no sanction for the foolhardy act of diving among sharks for the half of a fish.

The difference between them was that he kept the curtain of his shop window down.

Life pulsed steadily and deep in him, and it was not his nature needlessly to agitate the surface so that the world could see the splash he was making.

And the effect of the other's amazing exhibitions was to make him retreat more deeply within himself and wrap himself more thickly than ever in the nerveless, stoical calm of his race.
"You are so stupid the last few days," Joan complained to him.