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Yet the tender ecstacy of being paid for was irresistible, and he drank, saying, "Just one glass, then." Robert pledged him. They were in a private room, of which, having ordered up three bottles of sherry, Robert locked the door. The devil was in him. He compelled Anthony to drink an equal portion with himself, alternately frightening and cajoling the old man. "Drink, I tell you.
Sweeter and sweeter grew the scene, softer the air, tenderer the blending sounds of the water-murmur, leaf-rustle, bird-song, and slave-song, until hand in hand he wandered with Alice in greening groves, where the air was trembling with the ecstacy of spring.
The servants had gathered about the door, little Elsie's mammy among them, with her nursling in her arms. "Oh pretty, pretty!" shouted the little one, clapping her hands in an ecstacy of delight. "Let Elsie down, mammy." "Come to papa," the captain said, and taking her in his arms carried her to the tree and all around it, pointing out the pretty things. "What would you like to have?" he asked.
Catching her anew he would crush her against his breast, fondling her with that tempestuous gentleness that surely no mere man of earth could know, would drag up her faint soul to him through eyes and lips until she felt herself but a shred of ecstacy caught in a whirlwind of immortal love.
All that is pleasureable in sex-contact that reaches any man or woman who is only sense-conscious is no more than a faint echo of the ecstacy of divine and perfect love which is known to the spiritual alchemist, who has discovered the art of transmutation and thus found the key to the gate of eternal life. As long as we remain limited to the plane of sense-consciousness, old age is a blessing.
I should have put an end to our walks long ago." His vocabulary, marshaling itself under a surprising force, charged with a rush through his thought. Sentences unrelated, bizarre combinations of words a kaleidoscopic procession of astounding ideas art, life, war, streets, people he knew what they were all about. An illumination like a verbal ecstacy spread itself through him.
"I believe," she said, "that to hold a man permanently, it is vitally important not to be faithful to him. What honest woman has ever been as devotedly loved as a hetaira?" "There is a painful stimulus in the unfaithfulness of a beloved woman. It is the highest kind of ecstacy." "For you, too?" Wanda asked quickly. "For me, too."
She calmed and soothed the wife's sudden fright, lest 'something should have happened to George; and she even smiled when the children's scream of ecstacy infected their mother, when the papa and uncle they had been watching for with straining eyes proved to be standing on deck close beside them. Mary cast her eyes round, and saw nothing of her own.
And I'd lift off the waxed paper top and peer in, and maybe give the jelly a shake. And then I'd take a spoon and taste, closing my eyes so as to appear to deliberate they'd roll up in an ecstacy anyhow and I'd smack my lips, and say: "Mmmmm!" very thoughtfully, and set the glass back, and write down in my book my judgment, which would invariably be: "First Prize."
Then Hansel said to Everychild: "I don't mind going with you. Only, you'll have to let Grettel go along too and you can't go very far with a girl without something happening." "Of course, she'd go along," said Everychild. "As for something happening, it might be something nice more likely than not." At this Grettel clasped her hands in ecstacy. "What a nice boy!" she exclaimed.
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