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And in David's case all that passionate sense of a broken bubble and a scattered dream, which had haunted him so long after he left Kinder, had entered into and helped toward his infatuation with his new masters. They brought him an indescribable sense of freedom omniscience almost. For instance:
MacRae recalled the passionate undertone in Gower's voice when he said, "I did the only thing I could do in the way I was told to do it." Yes, he was sorry for Norman. The poor devil was not getting a square deal. But MacRae's pity was swiftly blotted out.
You’ll want all your wits about you after I am taken away.” He paused. Mrs Verloc’s breast heaved convulsively. This was not reassuring to Mr Verloc, in whose view the newly created situation required from the two people most concerned in it calmness, decision, and other qualities incompatible with the mental disorder of passionate sorrow.
The despair and remorse of the letter did not touch him he was too angry and indignant over the insult to himself but it astonished him. The passionate emotion of those closely-written pages he could scarcely connect with the shy, frank, kindly little girl he remembered: it was a cry of agony from a tortured woman, and he knew at least that for her the old quiet time was over.
Passionate as she was, and with that opulent form she could hardly be otherwise, principle was still deeper and more imperious with her than passion. He met her by appointment on the first ridge of Bore Hill. A sunny summer morning smiled fresh after the rain.
I could hear that she was restraining all emphasis, and trying to give the sensuous passionate words a commonplace cold interpretation. Never before has she read so monotonously. Suddenly I found myself becoming suffused with emotion. Why all the delay, the fencing, the fighting, to obtain this desired thing! This woman my mate! That she is my mate I know.
In an instant the hunter pricked his ears, snuffed the air, and twitched with passionate impatience at his bit; another instant and he had got his head, and, launching into a sweeping gallop, rushed down the glade. Cecil sprang forward from his lazy rest, and seized the ribbons that in one instant had cut his companion's gloves to stripes. "Sit still," he said calmly, but under his breath.
In fact, with many women active sex desire may never occur, and for others it is a rarity, while still others find themselves definitely desirous only after pregnancy. Not only are women less passionate, but their desire is more "finicky," more in need of appropriate circumstances, the proper setting and the chosen mate than with man.
Then, as Flora only looked at her wistfully and silently: "Isn't there some one you can confide in? Not Mrs. Britton?" "Clara? Oh, no; never!" Flora startled Mrs. Herrick with the passionate repudiation. "But could not Mr. Cressy " and with that broken sentence several things that Mrs. Herrick had been keeping back looked out of her face. Flora answered with a stare of misery.
Gaston and the Prior both turned to look as Father Paul bent over the prostrate figure with an inarticulate exclamation such as he seldom uttered, and Gaston felt a sudden thrill of cold fear run through him. "He is not dead?" he asked, in a passionate whisper; and the Father looked up to answer: "Nay, Sir Knight, he is not dead.
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