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But artists are impressionable; and being looked at so, by one I esteem, night after night, when my nerves are strung cela m'agace;" and she gave a shiver, and then was a little hysterical; and that was very unlike her. Rhoda kissed her, and said resolutely she would stop it. "Not unkindly?" "Oh no." "You will not tell him it is offensive to me?" "No." "Pray do not give him unnecessary pain."
Nobili was extremely impressionable; he also, as has been seen, wanted resolution to resist temptation. As yet, he had not developed the firmness and steadfastness that really belonged to his character.
Nevertheless, the most beautiful and impressionable of all the queens of France, the charming and unfortunate Mary Stuart, after having seen Rizzio murdered almost in her arms, fell in love, nevertheless, with the Earl of Bothwell; but she was a queen and queens are abnormal in disposition.
"Yes," answered Cornish, "it is long ago, but not so long as all that." His smooth fair face was slightly troubled by the knowledge that the recollections to which she referred were those of the Weimar days when she who was now a widow had been a young married woman. Tony Cornish had also been young in those days, and impressionable.
Here is a young man, very impressionable and eager to learn, who has fled from his home and his family, whose prejudices offended him. His family tries every means to bring him back and to punish his apostasy. In order to employ his energies effectively, the young proselyte, who has embraced the new religion only that he may follow progress, tries to get a position as a school-teacher.
This I have found happen generally in times of physical depression, and the same air no doubt exerted a similar influence on Sir John, which his impressionable nature rendered from the first more deleterious to him. I say this advisedly, because I am sure that if some music is good for man and elevates him, other melodies are equally bad and enervating.
"Please let me have a few drops of aromatic spirits of ammonia in a glass of water," she said, with the utmost composure. "Yes, ma'am!" said the impressionable clerk, who had been looking at her through the display window as she stood on the corner.
Not a soul in the town knew, as yet, of his wife's death; and he almost owed Downe the kindness of not publishing it till the day was over: the conjuncture, taken with that which had accompanied the death of Mrs. Downe, being so singular as to be quite sufficient to darken the pleasure of the impressionable solicitor to a cruel extent, if made known to him.
There, sitting on our horses, we shall command a wider horizon than even the tallest man would have standing on his own legs, and in this way get a better idea of the district in which ten of the most impressionable years of my life, from five to fifteen, were spent.
Native land must have a warmth and home feeling about it that other countries do not have, but as yet the psychological conditions for this have apparently not been worked out. With our present facilities in pictorial art, the geographical element in the idea of country seems controllable. The minds of children are exceedingly impressionable in this direction.
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