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But such as he was, when he first saw Heloise he conceived for her a violent attachment. Carefully guarded in the house of her uncle, Fulbert, it was difficult at first for Abelard to meet her save in the most casual way; yet every time that he heard her exquisite voice and watched her graceful manners he became more and more infatuated.
Think of an old campaigner like me infatuated enough to tie myself to a petticoat tail!... Why take her? I must leave her behind. Yes, I could make up my mind to it; but I know myself I should be ass enough to go back to her. Still, nobody knows Aquilina. Shall I take her or leave her?" "You will not take her!" cried a voice that filled Castanier with sickening dread.
His heart struck at Diana's, and whatever might by chance be true in the scandal affected him little, if but her heart were at liberty. That was the prize he coveted, having long read the nature of the woman and wedded his spirit to it. She would complete him. Of course, infatuated men argue likewise, and scandal does not move them.
Huntingdon,’ he continued, ‘but I cannot suppress my indignation when I behold such infatuated blindness and perversion of taste;—but, perhaps, you are not aware—‘ He paused.
"O Beloved," murmured the infatuated Fritz, "how beautifully you do tell lies." It was noticed when the King came down to the first Council of the new session that his face was flushed and his manner strangely discomposed.
But the old fellow, quite infatuated by his passion and jealousy, had not ceased to torment the poor girl with his folly in the most abominable way. And here Pasquarello mentioned a host of mad tricks which Pasquale had done, and which were really current in Rome about him. Signor Capuzzi sat on thorns; he murmured at intervals, "Curse you, Formica! You are lying! What evil spirit is in you?"
I know little concerning the ways of a girl's heart, but, ignorant as I am, I could see Mother, I never saw a girl so infatuated with a man as our Yolanda is with this Sir Max this stranger." "There, tante," cried Yolanda, turning triumphantly to Frau Kate, "you hear what uncle says. Now you see the great reason for having him here this Sir Max and his friend.
The last time he had met a woman, the Countess Winzerode, one of the many adventuresses to be found there, and speedily became infatuated.
"Well, sir," he replied, "maybe, afther all but didn't you say awhile ago that you wouldn't give sixpence for any information I could furnish you with?" "I did, and I do." A gleam of his former character returned to his eye, as, gathering up his lips again, 'he said, "I could soon show you to the contrary." "Yes; but you will not do so. I see clearly that you are infatuated.
"She ought to; but she seems so infatuated with him that there is no telling." "When shall you tell her, mother?" "I will wait a day or two. I want to manage matters so as not to arouse any suspicion." "Excuse my intrusion, Cousin Hamilton; I see you are engaged." The speaker was Mrs. Hill, and the person addressed was her wealthy cousin.
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