He wanted to live and to have others live on the concert-pitch of romantic action.

There was something of chivalry in the proposal of Jonas, a spice of adventure that made him approve it on purely sentimental grounds.
The more August thought of it, and the nearer he was to its execution, the more did he dislike it.

But I have often noticed that people of a rather quiet temperament, such as young Wehle's, show _vis inertiae_ in both, ways--not very easily moved, they are not easily checked when once in motion.

August's velocity was not usually great, his momentum was tremendous, and now that he had committed himself to the hands of Jonas Harrison and set out upon this enterprise, he was determined, in his quiet way, to go through to the end.
Of course he understood the house, and having left the family in meeting, he had nothing to do but to scale one of the pillars of the front-porch.

In those Arcadian days upper windows were hardly ever fastened, except when the house was deserted by all its inmates for days.