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"And one of the wealthiest if report be true," said Lady Ranscomb. "She fascinates me," Dorise declared. "If Monsieur Courtin had not warned us I should most probably have spoken to her." "Oh, my dear, you must do no such thing!" cried her mother, horrified. "It was extremely kind of monsieur to give us the hint. He has probably seen how unconventional you are, Dorise."
And did she know that Wort Wentworth had gone to sea in the "White Shield?" No; she was ignorant of that important fact. How narrow the circle of her knowledge was! "I know one thing, though, little boy," said the old lady, "that the sea, which fascinates so many young people, may prove to be a very hard master. O, I don't like to hear it roar on stormy nights!"
The world being thus put under the mind for verb and noun, the poet is he who can articulate it. For though life is great, and fascinates, and absorbs; and though all men are intelligent of the symbols through which it is named; yet they cannot originally use them.
They are notoriously addicted to the practice of standing arrested on some round of a ladder, where, having mounted up for some certain book, they have by wayward chance fallen upon another, in which, at the first opening, has come up a passage which fascinates the finder as the eye of the Ancient Mariner fascinated the wedding-guest, and compels him to stand there poised on his uneasy perch and read.
The Count had a copy of a Roman newspaper before him, and his eyes were fixed on a paragraph that seemed to have fascinated him as the serpent fascinates the bird. The paragraph read as follows: "Mlle. Louise d' Armilly, the famous prima donna, who will sing to-night at the Apollo Theatre her great rôle of Lucrezia Borgia, has, it appears, a deep impenetrable mystery surrounding her.
The southern façade, with its vaulted balconies and flanking towers, takes the fancy, fascinates the eye, and lends itself as a fit stage for puppets of the musing mind.
Her voice of flouting and contempt scotched him. He was brought up short. But he recovered himself. 'Tell me, only tell me, he reiterated in a dangerous narrowed voice 'tell me what it is that fascinates you in him. 'I am not fascinated, she said, with cold repelling innocence. 'Yes, you are. You are fascinated by that little dry snake, like a bird gaping ready to fall down its throat.
Although the arid plains of eastern Arizona are frequently called deserts, it is not till the west-bound tourist has passed Flagstaff that the word acquires a real and terrible significance. Then, during almost an entire day he journeys through a region which, while it fascinates, inspires him with dread.
"Rochester is really more my mate, Nicholas," she said, "but then there are moments when I am with him when I am not sure if he would not bore me eventually, and he has too much character for me to suppress Jim fascinates me, but I only hold him because he is not sure of me If I marry him he will be, and then I shall have to watch my looks, and remember to play the game all the time, and it won't be restful above all, I want rest and security."
We hesitate not to say that there is no race at this present, and following in this only the example of a long period, that so much delights, and fascinates, and elevates, and ennobles Europe, as the Jewish.
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