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Thus, by the principle already spoken of, he stores up a great mass of Kinæsthetic Equivalents, which linger in memory, and enable him to act appropriately when the proper circumstances come in his way. He also gets what we have called Associations established between the acts and the pleasure or pain which they give, and so avoids the painful and repeats the pleasurable ones.
Amid all the drilling and band-playing the troops had been doing hard work: a chain of strong fortifications scientifically constructed had been completed around the capital, and rendered it easy of defense. It could be left in safety. Why, then, was it not left? Why did the troops still linger? For a moment this monotony was interrupted by the ill-conducted engagement at Ball's Bluff.
"Things having come to their present pass," he reflected, "I had better not linger here I had better be off at once." Getting rid of Nozdrev as soon as he could, he sent for Selifan, and ordered him to be up at daybreak, in order to clean the britchka and to have everything ready for a start at six o'clock. Yet, though Selifan replied, "Very well, Paul Ivanovitch," he hesitated awhile by the door.
She did not shrink from his kiss, but she did not return it; nor did he linger as if expecting any return. He was on his feet the next moment, and she wondered with a little sense of chill if he were really satisfied. They found Adela awaiting them in her corner, but chafing for a change. "I want you to take us to the billiard-room," she said to Fletcher. "There's a great match on.
He recalled that the sinful dead are doomed, according to this belief, to linger for vast reaches of time in that borderland which is close to earth, eventually sent back to work out their final salvation; that they work it out among the descendants of the people they have wronged; that suicide is held by the devotees of occultism to be a cardinal sin, abhorred and execrated.
"I should not like to lose all the animals and go back empty-handed," Dias said after a silence of two or three minutes, "unless it were a last resource." "Nor should I, Dias; but you see, if we linger too long we may find it impossible to retire, we may be so hemmed in that there would be no chance of our getting through. For the day of course we are safe.
As the ladies seemed inclined to linger in the room it became a matter of importance that the above-named articles should fit, not only for ornament but for use. It was very cold, and Mr. Horne was altogether unused to move in a Highland sphere of life. But alas, alas! General Chasse had not been nurtured in the classical retirement of Ollerton.
He then put the book in his pocket, and began, as usual, to read aloud. 'Oh, don't go, mamma, said Sophy, when she had been carried to her own room at bed-time, and made ready for the night. Albinia was only too glad to linger, in the hope to be admitted into some of the recesses of that untransparent nature, and by way of assistance, said, 'I was not at all prepared for this discovery.
"Then if you will go along and let me join you later, I shall appreciate it," Tom suggested politely. "You wish to linger?" queried Don Luis, looking amused. "I wish to see a blast made here," Tom replied. "I, too, would like to see one," Harry added. "Then we will wait for you," agreed Don Luis, with a sigh that contained just a trace of impatience. A drilling and a blast were made.
Mechanically, he counted eighteen rungs, while his eyes examined the crypt, where the glimmer of the candle struggled against the heavy darkness. But, at the bottom, his nostrils were assailed by one of those foul and violent smells which linger in the memory for many a long day. And, suddenly, a trembling hand seized him by the shoulder. "Well, what is it?" "B-beautrelet," stammered M. Filleul.
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