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Bridget went on: 'I am in a fever of suspense and misery wondering whether Will's marriage will come off or if, at the last moment, it will be broken. He has been obsessing me these last days. He too I am certain of it dreads the Irrevocable, and regrets the rupture between us. I dream of him continually such restless, tantalising dreams. And yet my mood is so contradictory.
The young man stood gazing after her through the pines and the cypresses as her proud athletic figure grew smaller in the distance. The perfume of her presence seemed to linger about him when she had gone, obsessing him with the atmosphere of superiority and exotic elegance that emanated from her whole being.
Should he knock, discreetly, and ask if he could be of help? The strange romance of his existence, and of all existence, flowed around him in mysterious currents, obsessing him. Suddenly the door opened, and Charlie, barely avoiding a collision, started back in alarm. Then Charlie recovered his self-possession and carefully shut the door.
Mundy told me, something within gave way, and my head went down in my arms, which fell upon the table, and I held them back no longer the aching tears which came at last without restraint. "The pity oh, the pity of it!" was all that I could say, and wisely Mrs. Mundy let me cry it out the pain and horror which were obsessing me.
And so Paul told her of all his life, of Bludston, of Barney Bill, of the model days, of the theatre, of Jane, of his father; and he showed her the cornelian heart and expounded its significance; and he talked of his dearest lady, Miss Winwood, and his work on the Young England League, and his failure to grip in this disastrous election, and he went back to the brickfield and his flight from the Life School, and his obsessing dream of romantic parentage and the pawning of his watch at Drane's Court; and in the full tide of it all a perturbed butler appeared at the door.
"Then," said I, "no matter how much I believed in God, he wouldn't save me if I jumped into the big kettle for his sake?" For this I was properly rebuked and silenced. My boyhood was filled with obsessing desires. If God, for example, had cast down, out of his abundant store, manna and quail in the desert, why couldn't he fling me a little pocket money?
The dream vision was not more prodigiously improbable than the waking fact life, comfortable and secure, suddenly stripped of its garnishings, cut down to a single obsessing issue, narrowed to the point where the mind held but one desire to be safe. Before the advancing wall of flame the Mission was pouring out, retreating like an army in defeat.
The real truth about him was, that he was filled with some determination, some purpose. He was like a child who is playing at being a burglar, his face had exactly that absorption, that obsessing pre-occupation. "I've been waiting for you, Barin," he said in his hoarse musical voice. "What is it?" I asked. "This is where I live," he said, and he showed me a very dirty piece of paper.
But the doctor If I could always tell some one if I could tell you when these things were obsessing me haunting me they would cease " Mrs. Yarrow rose, with rather a piteous smile. "Then, I am a prescription!" She hoped, woman-like, that she was solely a passion; but is any woman worth having, ever solely a passion? "Don't!" Alford implored, rising too. "Don't, in mercy, take it that way!
During this conversation Madge would listen, at times, and turn towards the door. She had a vague idea that Ennis might come, since the boy's account had been somewhat reassuring. When she finally went to bed behind an improvised screen in a corner of the big living-room, she was long unable to sleep, owing to obsessing thoughts that wouldn't be banished.
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