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You commanded me to read; you commanded me to think; you taught me that body should be the servant of mind." "Hush, hush, times are altered; it is you who can teach me now. Teach me, teach me; how does ambition replace love? How does the desire to rise in life become the all-mastering passion, and, should it prosper, the all-atoning consolation of our life?
Never!" she cried. He laid his hand upon the table and leaned forward. "With me, yes," he said, speaking rapidly, yet with lips that scarcely seemed to move. "I have come for you, and I mean to take you. Be wise, Mademoiselle Stephanie! Come quietly!" She scarcely heard him. Frenzy had gripped her wild, unreasoning, all-mastering frenzy.
And when finally, half-disdainfully, she yielded to his insistence, his one all-mastering thought became to clinch the bargain before she could repent of it. It was a mad and headlong passion that drove him not for the first time in his life; and the subtle pride of her and the soft reserve made her all the more desirable in his eyes. He had won her; he did not stop to ask himself how.
Love not humdrum household affection, such as is all that is looked for when the exigencies of life make a wife expedient, and with full calculation of all he requires the man sets out to look for her and marry her. This was very different, an all-mastering passion, disdainful of every obstacle. To-morrow!
The terror of impending discovery had never left her, since Jack had owned the use to which he had put the contents of the blue-glass bottle. Animated by that all-mastering dread, she had thrown away every poison in the medicine-chest had broken the bottles into fragments and had taken those fragments out with her, when she left the house to follow Doctor Dormann.
Paul's little wistful face looked out every now and then, it is true, from among the fantastic forms and features grouped around him, with a growing sense upon the hearer of what was really meant by the child being so "old-fashioned." But the ludicrous effect of those surrounding characters was nothing less than all-mastering in its predominance. There was Mrs.
There was only one man in Fernhurst who was not afraid of him, and that was Lovelace, who was indeed afraid of nothing, and who towered over his contemporaries by the splendour of his athletic achievements, and the strength of an all-mastering personality. On the next day Gordon had to watch another Upper game. This time "the Bull" was more or less quiet.
Before Magdalen could push her way through the crowd before her all-mastering anxiety to help her sister had blinded her to every other consideration, and had brought her, self-betrayed, to Norah's side an open carriage passed the pavement slowly, hindered in its progress by the press of vehicles before it.
He accepted in the manner of one who knows he is setting at defiance all honesty and right, urged to such a course by an all-mastering passion, which he is incapable of resisting. Strange was the nature of this man. He knew himself as it is given to few weak men to know themselves. He knew that he wished to do this thing. He knew, also, that he was doing wrong.
The vision is all to him, and he gazes upon it with hungry, dreadful eyes. His heart is starving; his mind is empty of all but the pangs of his all-mastering desire. If need be he will pursue to the ends of the earth. He has been to the depths of hell for her; he has felt the withering blast of satanic fires. There is nought for him but possession; possession of the woman he seeks.
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