counterbursts

Updated: May 9, 2025

Campbell was deeply shocked to hear the light tone in which she talked of the passionate temper of a man whom she so surely loved. How many outbursts of it there must have been; how many paroxysms of astonishment, shame, and grief, perhaps, alas! counterbursts of anger ere that heart could have become thus proof against the ever-lowering thunder-storm!

Charles Kingsley - Two Years Ago, Volume II.