'Flatly no: I don't think it.

I think exactly the reverse.

It brings out the noblest traits in human character?
I won't own that even.

It brings out some but under excitement, when you have not always the real man .-- Pray don't sneer at domestic life.

Well, there was a suspicion of disdain .-- Yes, I can respect the hero, military or civil; with this distinction, that the military hero aims at personal reward--' 'He braves wounds and death,' interposed Diana.
'Whereas the civilian hero--' 'Pardon me, let me deny that the soldier-hero aims at a personal reward,' she again interposed.
'He gets it.' 'If he is not beaten.' 'And then he is no longer a hero.' 'He is to me.' She had a woman's inveterate admiration of the profession of aims.