He was submitting, submitting because of his fathers, bending his mind in a most perfect slavery to this conflagration. - Stephen Crane

He had been out among the dragons, he said, and he assured himself that they were not so hideous as he had imagined them. Also,

A Man Said to the Universe

A man said to the universe:
“Sir, I exist!”
“However,” replied the universe,
“The fact has not created in me
A sense of obligation.

MARJORY walked pensively along the hall. In the cool shadows made by the palms on the window ledge, her face wore the expression of thoughtful melancholy expected on the faces of the devotees who pace in cloistered gloom. She halted before a door at the end of the hall and laid her hand on the knob. She stood hesitating, her head bowed. It was evident that this mission was to require great fortitude.