cross-impulse

Updated: May 15, 2025

At present he barely gave further attention; detaching himself as under some odd cross-impulse, he had quitted the spot and then taken, in the wide room, a restless turn only, however, to revert in a moment to his friend's just-uttered deprecation of the danger of boring him. "If I make you take advantage of me that is blessedly talk to me it's exactly what I want to do. Talk to me talk to me!"

Henry James - The Finer Grain