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He remembered that almost at once he had fallen in love with Cora: she captivated him, enraptured him, as she still did as she always would, he felt, no matter how she treated him or what she did to him. He did not analyze the process of the captivation and enrapturement for love is a mystery and cannot be analyzed. This is so well known that even Richard Lindley knew it, and did not try!
'Suppose that a man, so his thoughts ran, 'who had been of age some twenty years or so; who was a diffident man, from the circumstances of his youth; who was rather a grave man, from the tenor of his life; who knew himself to be deficient in many little engaging qualities which he admired in others, from having been long in a distant region, with nothing softening near him; who had no kind sisters to present to her; who had no congenial home to make her known in; who was a stranger in the land; who had not a fortune to compensate, in any measure, for these defects; who had nothing in his favour but his honest love and his general wish to do right suppose such a man were to come to this house, and were to yield to the captivation of this charming girl, and were to persuade himself that he could hope to win her; what a weakness it would be!
Every day brought new revelations of Gypsy's intelligence. Missy took to spending every spare minute at Tess's. Under this new captivation her own pet, Poppy, was thoughtlessly neglected. And duties such as practicing, dusting and darning were deliberately shirked.
Therefore, prepare ye the way of the Lord, for the time is at hand that all men shall reap a reward of their works, according to that which they have been if they have been righteous they shall reap the salvation of their souls, according to the power and deliverance of Jesus Christ; and if they have been evil they shall reap the damnation of their souls, according to the power and captivation of the devil.
Now Helen Johns was a beauty; no one unbiassed by the party spirit of a time-honoured feud would have denied that. She was not, it is true, of the ordinary type of beauty, whose chief ornament is an effort at captivation.
Randolph asked where Daisy was. "In the window, singing to the stars," Gary McFarlane whispered. "Do you know, Mrs. Randolph, how she can sing?" "No, how? She has a child's voice." "But not a child's taste or ear," said Gary. "I heard her the other day warbling the gypsy song in 'The Camp in Silesia, and she did it to captivation. Do, Mrs. Randolph, ask her to sing it. I was astonished."
With that, having laid aside his gun, which, as he represented, could be, in such an undertaking, of no service, and directed Stackpole to do the same, he shook Roland by the hand, and, waiting an instant till Ralph had followed his example, and added his farewell in the brief phrase, "Sodger, I'm atter my mistress; and, for all Nathan's small talk about massacree and captivation, we'll fetch her, with a most beautiful lot of hosses; so thar's no fawwell about it," turned to little Peter, whom he addressed quite as gravely as he had done the Virginian.
"I don't wonder at your captivation. That is Silvia Holland, one rich American girl who is determined to justify her existence, live a life that is worth while, and demonstrate the ability of women to be economically independent, for although her father has a half-dozen city, country and resort residences, she insists in maintaining at her own expense a modest apartment in the Whittier Studios, and keeps up her own country home on the Hudson at Nutwood.
Now there is something exceedingly captivating in a pair of soft blue eyes not that there may not be something quite as captivating in a pair of brown or black or grey eyes but there is something singularly captivating in the peculiar style of captivation wherewith a man is captivated by a pair of blue distinctly blue eyes.
If thee does well, it may be we shall both discover and carry her safe away from captivation: if thee acts as a foolish imprudent man, and, truly, friend, I have my fears of thee, thee will both fail to help her theeself, and prevent others doing it, who, it may be, has the power."
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