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Her motherhood was an obsession, jealous, intense, unreasoning. They had named him after the general Thomas Battle Webb, but to Eugenia he was "the baby," the solitary baby in a universe where birth is as common as death. And, indeed, he was a thing of joy the nurse, Dudley, Miss Chris, all admitted it.
You see, I know how to handle Somehow I " "Yes, mother, only now you must sit quietly " "Promise me, son, you won't let him get away without I see him?" "Yes, dear, only please now a moment quiet " You see, the judge was very tired, and, looking down at the spot where her hand still lay at her bosom as if to press down a hurt, the red of her same obsession shook and shook him.
Furious, he rose and to rid himself of the obsession, with all his strength he inhaled that pure essence of spikenard, so dear to Orientals and so repulsive to Europeans because of its pronounced odor of valerian. He was stunned by the violence of the shock.
My first impression was decidedly that of a paranoiac. Yet in some ways the case suggested another view. There had remained an insight into the unreality of the obsession. The patient did not really believe the theory of the telepathic hypnotic influence.
There are those to whom sex is mere appetite, to be indulged and put out of the way, so as not to interfere with the great purposes of success; there are those to whom it is a religion, carried on with ceremonials and rites; there are those to whom it is an obsession, and their minds are in a sexual stew at all times.
Another power possessed by the evil spirits, and one that excited much attention and created an immense amount of strife during Elizabethan times, was that of entering into the bodies of human beings, or otherwise influencing them so as utterly to deprive them of all self-control, and render them mere automata under the command of the fiends. This was known as possession, or obsession.
"It is simply becoming an obsession with you!" urged Morrison. He spoke as he always did, with the simplest manner of direct sincerity. "You ought to make an effort against it, really, my dear fellow. It's simply spoiling your life for you!" "I either ought to reform or get out." Morrison set his enemy squarely before him and proceeded to do battle. "But it wasn't. I knew!
"But it is just his one obsession. Frank must have known that." "And I've not the slightest doubt," said Jenny, "that that was an additional reason for his doing it." "Well, what'll happen?" She jerked her head a little. "Oh! it'll pass off. You'll see. Frank'll find out, and then we shall all be happy ever afterwards." "But meantime?" "Oh! Frank'll go and stay with friends a month or two.
I imagined, for instance, that at Belshazzar's feast, the loftiest epergne of gold, surrounded by flowers and jewels, carried the monarch's proudest possession, a cake of carmine. I knew of no object in the world of luxury more desirable than this, and its obsession in my waking hours is quite enough, I think, to account for 'carmine' having been the torment of my dreams.
"Ah yes!" he continued, crossing the floor to gaze at the darkening sky, and seemingly quite oblivious of my presence, "subliminal up-rushes of memory like this can be exceedingly painful, and sometimes exceedingly dangerous. I only trust that this gentle soul may soon escape from this obsession of a passionate and tempestuous past. But I doubt it, I doubt it."
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