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No more a Prophet no more inspired than you or Bale-Corphew!" He stopped abruptly and drew a slow, deep breath. The pause that followed was long and strained. In the grip of strong emotions, each stood rigid, striving vainly to read the other's face. At last, goaded by the silence, he spoke again. "You have done this!" he cried. "You have compelled me to tell you!
The time since she had returned to find that her home had been searched had passed in a whirl of conflicting emotions. For a few moments after dismissing Hannah she had stood upright, immovable, with a sense of being alone in the world. All the interests and hopes of her life seemed to slip from her and fall into a heap of dead ashes at her feet. The Princess had gone.
The spectator takes pains to share the sentiments of the person observed; and the latter, on his part, endeavors to reduce the emotions which move him to a degree which will render participation in them possible for the former.
Everything must go, his pride, his faith, his vengeance, before that came about, and he stopped in his restless pacing and leaned against a pine as the conflicting emotions gave place to a quiet resolution. At last he could see the stars between the great branches high above him, and shivered a little as a chilly breeze sighed across the silent bush.
We have passions that do not insist upon their physiological end, desires that may be prematurely vivid in childhood, a fantastic curiosity, old needs of the ape but thinly overlaid by the acquisitions of the man, emotions that jar with physical impulses, inexplicable pains and diseases.
Ned Sinton listened with interest to the words of his friend, but he did not interrupt him, for he respected the deep emotions that swelled his heart and beamed from his flashing eye. "We spoke, Ned, sometime ago, of historical associations," continued Tom, "here are historical associations worth coming all this way to call up.
But even the knowledge that they shared a common amazement did not appear, at once, to assuage Mrs. Holt's emotions. "Do you love him?" she demanded abruptly. Whereupon Honora burst into tears. "Oh, Mrs. Holt," she sobbed, "how can you ask?" From this time on the course of events was not precisely logical. Mrs.
The reader spoke no word while perusing the epistle, but his facial play attested his emotions better than speech could have done. His countenance was grave on learning of the visit, desperate at the thought of its length, and expressed annoyance at the inconvenience of her illness while under his roof; when the final page was reached, his features became illumined with ecstatic joy.
Jane's indignation. New acquaintances. Jane's contempt for their ignorance and pride. A noble but illiterate lady. Deference paid to her. Habits of reflection. The influence of those intense emotions which were excited in the bosom of Jane by the scenes which she witnessed in her childhood in the nunnery were never effaced from her imaginative mind.
Close friends of the family as they were, even they were superfluous at a time like this. But the American mayor remained. "I guess," said he, "my nephew " "Oh!" cried Jill, "then you are his uncle dear, dear Mr Headland!" and the little maid flung herself into the astonished gentleman's arms and relieved her emotions with a flood of tears.
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