Archdeacon Varcoe would not be drawn into discussion, but sipped his wine, listened, and watched Gaston.
The young man measured his grandfather's mind, and he drove home his points mercilessly.
Captain Maudsley said something about "romantic murder." "That's the trouble," Gaston said.

"I don't know who killed duelling in England, but behind it must have been a woman or a shopkeeper: sentimentalism, timidity, dead romance.

What is patriotism but romance?
Ideals is what they call it somewhere.

I've lived in a land full of hard work and dangers, but also full of romance.

What is the result?
Why, a people off there whom you pity, and who don't need pity.