They were honest, honorable men in their dealings, but the people had given them a couple of nicknames which were very suggestive--Herr Givenaught and Herr
Heartless. The old knights were so proud of these names that if a burgher called them by their right ones they would correct them.
Back to him over the waters, hollow and
heartless, like laughter in a tomb, rang the voice of the Skipper:
I feared he would think it
heartless if I read, so I sat by the window, smoking a pipe, till he felt inclined to speak.
The intense concentration of self in the middle of such a
heartless immensity, my God!
She had grown to young womanhood a cold and
heartless creature, daughter of a thousand other cold,
heartless, beautiful women who had never known love.
I reject you, and all of your kith and kin--all the false, hollow,
heartless stock.'
They were partaking of a cold potato and water by the flickering and gloomy light of a lucifer-match, in their lodgings (rent considerably in arrear, and
heartless landlady threatening expulsion 'like a dog' into the streets), when a gifted friend happening to look in, said,
They call you
heartless: but your heart is true, and I love the bashfulness of your goodwill.
"You are to take it," she said, "as expressing my conviction that I saddled myself with the charge of an incorrigibly
heartless, obstinate and perverse girl, when I undertook the care of Blanche."
"I try to keep my temper," she said, "and you call me
heartless for doing it.
Why hast thou not been, like me, among these
heartless cravens, whom the very name of King Richard terrifies, as it is said to do the children of the Saracens?'
Off we skip like the most
heartless things in the world, which is what children are, but so attractive; and we have an entirely selfish time, and then when we have need of special attention we nobly return for it, confident that we shall be rewarded instead of smacked.