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With which he opened the door, and left her standing by the sofa quivering with a strange joy and perplexity and some other wild emotion of which she had not dreamed.
He came up with her. ... he caught at her robe, soft to the touch as silken gauze, and overwhelmed by a sudden emotion of awe and reverence, he sank on his knees. "Who, and what are you?" he murmured in trembling tones "Tell me!
With a confidence amounting almost to indifference she faced Jim on the day of the old doctor's funeral, her beauty absolutely startling in its setting of demure black veil and trailing sombre garments. Jim watched her, some curious emotion that was compounded of resentment and jealousy and astonishment darkening his face.
He is only as yet a mere boy, and such emotion is excusable. At last he looked up. "I long to be a Christian like her," he said; "over and over again she taught me, during her last days on earth, of the Christ she loved, and who, she said, was ever near her. I have heard all about the faith she loved, yet I am an outcast from it.
Thus Mathieu found the worthy woman in a state of great emotion, waiting for the child on the threshold of her shop, and watching the corner of the avenue. "Oh! it was Celeste who sent you, monsieur! No, La Couteau hasn't come yet. I'm quite astonished at it; I expect her every moment. Will you kindly step inside, monsieur, and sit down?"
"Having said this, he stepped out of the enclosure, and, after he had put on his robes, dismissed the assembly. "I own I was greatly astonished at what I had seen; but as I observed that every eye in the company was fixed on me with a view to discover my sentiments, I carefully concealed every emotion.
Shock symptoms may thus be symbols of long past racial experiences which when we have learned to interpret them more fully will tell us much of the early history of our phylum." It is the outbreaks of emotion which "mark the incursions of the race into the narrow life of the individual." Loc. cit., pp. 178-179. Loc. cit., p. 179. Loc. cit., p. 183.
"Oh, it is such a comfort to hear you say this," Virgie murmured, her voice husky with emotion, her eyes filled with tears. "Poor papa! his last years were embittered with the thought that every one believed him a defaulter that he had not one friend in all the world, save his daughter, who had faith in him." "He made a great mistake in leaving San Francisco as he did," Mr. Knight remarked.
I wonder, sometimes, whether the appreciators of art and of mathematical solutions are not even more closely allied. Before we feel an aesthetic emotion for a combination of forms, do we not perceive intellectually the rightness and necessity of the combination?
Not one member of the club shared his point of view or his emotion; but his whole personality and speech had on them the effect of a dramatic representation which had some pathos in it, though no practical consequences; and usually he was at once indulged and contradicted.
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