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Leaving them seated on the grass by the roadside, Lancy re-entered the church, the strange doings having a certain fascination which he could neither explain nor resist. In a short time Elsie recovered sufficiently to walk around, but curiosity drew her again to the church, and they watched through the windows the peculiar actions of the people.
Gradually, slowly, but surely, the fascination of the gay and brilliant society in which Ronald was so eagerly courted laid hold of him. He did not sin willfully or consciously; little by little a distaste for his own home and a weariness of Dora's society overcame him. He was never unkind to her, for Ronald was a gentleman; but he lingered no more through the long sunny morning by her side.
She is dazzled by his showiness and his fluency, his horsemanship and his dancing; but love him she does not It is fascination, such a fascination as leads a moth to flutter round a candle, or a bird to drop into the rattlesnake's mouth, and never was flame more dangerous, or serpent more deadly. He is unworthy of her, Lucy, thoroughly unworthy.
His unblinking eyes never for an instant quitted my face. With what a frightful fascination they constrained me, and how I loathed them! When he spoke again there was a new intonation in his speech, something bitter, cruel, unrelenting. 'Do you know Paul Lessingham? He pronounced the name as if he hated it, and yet as if he loved to have it on his tongue. 'What Paul Lessingham?
Claudius was not thinking of producing an effect, for the fascination of the dark woman was upon him, and the low, strange voice bewitched him, so he said what came uppermost. "Yes," said he, "there are persons whose lives may indeed be matters of fact to themselves who shall say? but who are always dreams in the lives of others."
In the whole conversation, he never uttered a broken or awkwardly constructed sentence, nor wavered, while stating facts, by a single intonation. This considerable intellectual energy, combined with courtesy, was his chief fascination.
If well trained the dog takes no notice whatever of the duck, but continues his fascination until the quick report of the battery announces to him that his services are now wanted in another quarter, and he immediately rushes into the water to arrest the flight of the maimed and wounded, who, struggling on every side, dye the water with their rich blood.
He carried me to the top of the bank, where we were surrounded by the whole band of backwoodsmen. "That he did!" cried Polly Ann, "and fetched a redskin yonder as clean as you could have done it, Tom." "The little deevil!" exclaimed Tom again. I looked up, and my eyes were caught and held with a strange fascination by fearless blue ones that gazed down into them.
Can it last? Where will it all end? Shall we run "bang into him" in the open, or will he beat us in yonder cold scenting woodland standing boldly forth on the skyline miles ahead? All these things add a peculiar fascination to a fast run over this wild country. Sooner or later there is a sudden check, a couple of sharp turns, and the spell is gone.
The point of fascination of this work does not lie surely in any celebration of enviable joys, or sorrows nearly as enviable; it is not that it is spiritual, which would strengthen its appeal for some, neither that it is sensuous, which would make it alluring to others; it is that it breathes love, love, indefinable but unmistakable, mysterious but absolute, understood of all, explainable by none, and of greater, or at least more universal, interest than any other emotion.
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