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Jimmy sighed and looked around. The house was old, and comfortably sturdy. It gave him a sense of refuge, of having reached a safe haven at last. The house was over-warm, and there was a musty smell of over-aged furniture, old leather, and the pungence of mothballs. It seemed to generate a feeling of firm stability.
It seems both strange and significant to me now that this book chanced to be given me by Lavinia Dorman, mother's school friend and bridesmaid, a spinster of fifty-five, and was really the beginning of the transfer of her friendship to me, the only woman friendship that I have ever had, and its quality has that fragrant pungence that comes from sweet herbs, that of all garden odours are the most lasting.
My loneliness often took on the pungence of acute physical discomfort. The more I achieved, the more painful was my self-pity Nothing seemed to matter unless it was sanctified by marriage, and marriage now mattered far more than love Girls had acquired a new meaning. They were not merely girls. They were matrimonial possibilities
Here, in the softened light, amid the resinous pungence of the cones and the green boughs, where the wind above played an endless, solemn accompaniment to the careless song of the stream below, the maiden Saint tried to save into the Kingdom a youthful Gentile of whom she discovered almost daily some fresh reason why he should not be lost.
The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops no, but the kind of a man the country turns out. Emerson. The whole wide ether is the eagle's sway: The whole earth is a brave man's fatherland. Euripides. Spices crush'd, their pungence yield, Trodden scents their sweets respire; Would you have its strength reveal'd? Cast the incense in the fire.
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