breathing-limit

Updated: May 25, 2025

The great sitting of the Chamber, that almost religious celebration of defensive union, really expressed the opinion of the whole people. It is fairly easy to soar to the empyrean when one is carried on the wings of such an impulse, and when one does not know how long one is to be kept suspended at the breathing-limit. But there is a term to the flight of the most soaring elan.

Edith Wharton - Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort