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I never saw on any face, no, not on the stage, at the climax of the most heart-rending tragedy, a greater accumulation of mortal passion struggling with the imperative necessity for restraint. The young girl whose blond head lay on his shoulder looked like a saint in the clutch of a demon. She had seen death, but he But I prefer not to be the interpreter of that expressive countenance.
These were the feelings that induced him to conceal his true position more carefully than ever, and, while he watched over the lovers like a guardian spirit, made him do nothing to check the rapid progress of their passion.
Where-ever you take me I shall be the happiest woman in the world." "WOMAN," he laughed, scarcely breathing the word aloud. "Yes, I am a woman now" "And yet forever and ever the little girl of Cragg's Ridge," he cried with sudden passion, crushing her close to him.
Not like those tears which burst from their swollen eyes, when anger and hatred choked their words, and their proud hearts laboured with stubbornness and folly; when their skins reddened, and all their features were changed and distorted by the violence of passion, which made them frightful to the beholders, and miserable to themselves; No!
At this period she exerted a most effective influence over the ideas of her young friend; she pictured to him the conditions of fashionable life prior to the Revolution, with its great ladies, its court intrigues, and its mysteries of passion and ambition; and she imbued him with monarchical principles. But, above all else, it was she herself who was the life-giving flame which fired his genius.
Encarna's bosom was consumed with the fires of passion for Leandro; but that ingrate, enamoured of Milagros, was unscathed by the soul-flames of the second-hand dealer's daughter.
She had been unable to go to the humble, the suffering ones of the world, and had just expired amidst the impotent cry of her egotistical passion when it was too late either to love or to create. Never more would children be born of her, the old Roman house was henceforth empty, sterile, beyond possibility of awakening.
"The passion of laughter," said Hobbes, "is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves by comparison with the inferiority of others, or with our own formerly." Too cynical a view, declare many critics, but they usually end by admitting that there is a good deal in it after all.
"O, Jim, not the most beautiful!" said Frank, suddenly, thrilled and shaken with some wayward passion of gratitude, as acute as it was unheralded. He looked down at her, puzzled. "Oh, I'm glad, Jim; glad!" she cried, irrelevantly. "Glad for what?" "For this for you for everything!" His face clouded a little, for a moment, with the shadow of the past that could and would not be altogether past.
"In this piteous appeal Shelley declares that he has now no grief but one the grief of having known and lost his wife's love." Exhibit F "Thy look of love has power to calm The stormiest passion of my soul."
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