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He had suffered so painfully three years before from the mortification to which his wife had subjected him that he now protected himself from the danger of its repetition, first by not being a husband to his wife, and secondly by not allowing himself to suspect. "No, now that she has become a bluestocking she has finally renounced her former infatuations," he told himself.
Could I lead you through these streets, and let you into the secret of the interests, hopes, infatuations and follies that prevail in the human breast, you, as a calm spectator, would be astonished at the manner in which your own species can be deluded. But let us move, and something may still occur to offer an example." "Mr. Effingham I beg pardon Mr.
"For no especial reason on my honor, Fred," replied Tetlow. "Simply because time works wonders in all sorts of ways, including infatuations. Also well, the fact is, it didn't seem to me that young lady improved on acquaintance. Maybe I got tired, or piqued I don't know. If she hadn't been a silly little fool, would she have refused you?
The Queen paid them marked attention; doubtless she wished them to distinguish between the esteem she felt for their noble nation and the political views of the Government in the support it had afforded to the Americans. Discontent was, however, manifested at Court in consequence of the favour bestowed by the Queen on the English noblemen; these attentions were called infatuations.
But Miss Duncan had no use for a heroine without a heartache. It is not improbable that Miss Janet Duncan may appear with Miss Sally Broke in another volume. The style of her conversation is known, and there is no room to reproduce it here. She, too, had a heart, but she was a young woman given to infatuations, as Cynthia rightly guessed.
"Infatuations in fatuous humans foster the illusion that great things can come from human coupling as if hitching can concoct the Orient Express...Am I the only person who believes this way? I am. It is no wonder that most people I encounter think of me as a bitch.... Can't blame it on menstruation every day of the month. No, I take pride in my bitchiness. I relish having such an accolade.
He did not want the flood of Garth's confidences checked, so he supplied the needed words. "Just a good sort. Yes, I quite understand. Well?" "I had had my infatuations, plenty of them," went on the eager young voice. "The one thing I thought of in women was their exteriors. Beauty of all kinds of any kind crazed me for the moment. I never wanted to marry them, but I always wanted to paint them.
One of the most extraordinary infatuations of our days has been the blindness of this party to the fact that the conditions under which they acted, and the means they employed, were directly opposed to the end in view, and leading from rather than conducting to it.
Praise 'that Pete-horse, and George would ride his head off for you. He has a weakness for wanting to marry every woman he sees, but his infatuations seem harmless enough." "I know something of his weakness," Zen replied. "I have already been honored with a proposal." Transley looked in her face.
When it has marked a rising artist, it notes his progress, encourages him, blames him, urges him on, checks him. It takes such a one into its favour, is extremely wroth with such another. It is, of course, sometimes in the wrong; it is subject to ridiculous infatuations, and unjust revulsions of feeling; yet it lives, and it vivifies, and it is worth working for.
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