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He was sure she would look, and she would be disappointed if she looked in vain. One must not disappoint a child. The memory of her went through him, vivid, enchanting, compelling. It nerved his sinking heart. It renewed his grip on life. It urged him upwards. Only a child! Only a child! But yet
The positive influences of the scientific age in which he lived upon Browning's work were chiefly these first it tended to intellectualise his instincts, compelling him to justify them by a definite theory; and secondly it co-operated with his tendency towards realism as a student of the facts of human nature; it urged him towards research in his psychology of the passions; it supported him in his curious inquisition of the phenomena of the world of mind.
His feet were very wide apart, and he thrust his face forward at her, his eyes glaring into hers with every trick which instinct prompted him to use in compelling her obedience. Elizabeth barely glanced at him, and then looked down at the floor, quietly considering in what way she should reply to such an attack. John was disconcerted; his little stage play had fallen flat.
"I I think I understand now," she admitted, "how all this occurred; but why why were you so persistent? There there must have been a reason more impelling than a vague suspicion?" "There was the most compelling impulse in the world." "You mean faith in me?" "Even more than that; love for you.
Gloom seemed to weigh upon them, compelling them to silence, with lowered gaze and compressed lips, as if a dead man were lying in the adjoining room. It was the presence of the stranger, the intruder, foreign to their class and to their customs. Accursed Majorcan! When all the youths had sat in the seat beside Margalida, the señor arose.
"There are two in every marriage," Piero retorted sullenly, for he was angry now. "It is just that oh, it is just that!" Marina cried, clasping her hands passionately. "Thou art so strong and so compelling, and thou dost not stop for the right of it. She was such a child, she knew no better, poverina!
She looked down for a second sideways at the fingers gripping her shoulder and she saw them again stained with blood, saw them clenched round the dripping thong. She knew already by bitter experience the iron grip of his lean fingers and the compelling strength of his arms. Her quick imagination leaped ahead. What she had already suffered would be nothing compared with what would be.
It is the doctrine of original sin, of the congenital depravity of man's nature, which blocks the way to the reform of education, blocks the way to it by compelling education to become the destroying angel instead of the foster-nurse of the child's expanding life.
It was thought high time for the bloodshed to cease in the provinces; and as England, by making a treaty of peace with Spain when Spain was at the last gasp, had come to the rescue of that power, it was logical that she should complete the friendly work by compelling the rebellious provinces to awake from their dream of independence.
The womanly instincts that under Aubrey's training had been suppressed and undeveloped had, in contact with the Sheik's vivid masculinity and compelling personality, risen to the surface with startling completeness. To-day she was almost desperate. His callousness of the morning had wounded her deeply, and a wave of rebellion welled up in her.
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