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When a girl reads sentimental and passionate poetry, neglecting Scott, Milton, and Wordsworth, I call it the same sort of wrong mismanaging of herself as if she ruined her digestion with a greedy love of pastry. Poetry and pastry are often the same sort of weak self-indulgence. I do not say read no novels that are exciting and romantic, or even that are silly, but I do say, sandwich them.
"It's getting exciting, isn't it?" she observed. "But I don't feel nasty. Having you here makes makes a difference, you know." "If you have to die with me, how shall you feel?" he asked. "I shall feel till my last gasp that I would much rather have lived with you," she answered emphatically. A wavelet splashed up against the clay on which they were standing.
Your favourite, Madame la Baronne, is interdicted from presenting himself here so long as he persists in offending me. She was requested to explain, and, with the fair ingenuousness which outshines innocence, she touched on the story of the glove. Ah! what a delicate, what an exciting, how subtle a question!
It was not exactly the temperature at which one enjoys an evening stroll, but the recent events had been so exciting that Vera felt how impossible it would be to settle down to anything within the limits of the house. There was a moon, too, which made all the difference in the world.
For Charles Lamb, such form of religion becomes the solemn background on which the nearer and more exciting objects of his immediate experience relieve themselves, borrowing from it an expression of calm; its necessary atmosphere being indeed a profound quiet, that quiet which has in it a kind of sacramental efficacy, working, we might say, on the principle of the opus operatum, almost without any co-operation of one's own, towards the assertion of the higher self.
What a ridiculous situation! He had wrought himself up to the point of breaking with the world and his past, and now it only remained to satisfy the cabman! He tossed feverishly all night, seeking to soothe himself, but really exciting himself the more by a hundred plausible explanations.
The four kept up a more or less connected mental conversation with each other as they went along, except, of course, when the events became too exciting. Mainly they were trying to catch their agents in the proper mood for receiving telepathic communications, and it proved no easy matter. It required a state of semi-consciousness, a condition of being neither awake nor asleep.
At five o'clock on the morning of the eighteenth we made our bow to the captain, who despatched us as an escort or guard to a train from Hartwood to Warrenton Junction. During the march we made an exciting dash upon a band of guerillas, who were watching for us, expecting to make some captures.
The snow still held off, and before me was nothing more exciting than a cold drive over a bad road that was frozen hard as a board, a halt at the Halfway stables to change horses, and perhaps the society of Billy Jones as far as Caraquet, if he wanted to go there.
After what I told you that I heard from Esme about an exciting love romance, any mistake of this sort might be particularly dangerous. The Organization might think it had more right than ever to be bitter against us. And now, I don't mind your confiding in your friend Captain Fenton. I think I'd like him to know my story."
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