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"Your foolhardiness appals me, and heaven knows, I never expected that I should be in a position to call you foolhardy." And with this she left him to bask in the hero-worship which the approaching Mrs. Cole-Mortimer would lavish upon him. The "accident" kept them at home that night, and Lydia was not sorry.
We welcomed the English stories of a decade ago that began to give the complexities of life instead of the conventions of a plot. But this complete liquidation rather appals us. The novels I have mentioned so far in this article have all together not enough plot to set up one lively Victorian novel.
The increasing wants of the members of all classes, the debts that are their inevitable consequence, the universal longing, partly unsatisfied for lack of means, for the pleasures of the subtle Asiatic civilisations, infused into this whole history a demoniac frenzy that to-day, after so many centuries, fascinates and appals us.
But I think it's much best for you, all your first life should be wholly forgotten." He paused for a second. Then he added slowly: "If you remembered it all, the sense of the tragedy would be far more acute and poignant even than at present." "Perhaps so," I said resolutely; "but not the sense of mystery. It's THAT that appals me so!
What frankly appals men and freezes the worshipful instinct in their hearts is the apparent Divine indifference, the silence of God, in the presence of so much human wretchedness.
William's mother stood at the door answering with her own the waving of William's handkerchief until the wagon turned a corner. . . . Then she went back to weep. Inside the Union Station that horror of horrors that still appals the train-borne visitors to a great city William and his escorts were met by Lucien, Whimple, and Epstein.
I know not if you are in like case with me; but there, where once were servants in plenty, I find none left but my maid, and shudder with terror, and feel the very hairs of my head to stand on end; and turn or tarry where I may, I encounter the ghosts of the departed, not with their wonted mien, but with something horrible in their aspect that appals me.
'Women's hearts! She laughed hysterically. 'And you believe that you understand women! Do you think war appals us? Do you think because we may shed tears that it is from self-pity? Rubbish! There are thousands of us to-night who could almost shout for joy. 'Elise! 'I mean it. Don't you see that to-night our whole life has been changed?
But it lives in the air though we see it not; it lurks in the stone and waits the flash of the steel; it coils round the dry leaves and sere stalks, and a touch re-illumines it; it plays in the marsh it collects in the heavens it appals us in the lightning it gives warmth to the air life of our life, and the element of all elements.
What have I done? Oh, I am mad still? 'Sign, and be saved! said the soft, sweet voice of the Egyptian. 'Tempter, never! cried Glaucus, in the reaction of rage. 'Thou knowest me not: thou knowest not the haughty soul of an Athenian! The sudden face of death might appal me for a moment, but the fear is over. Dishonour appals for ever!
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