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Imagination! He had been cursed with too much of it. In his youth he had skulked through alleys and back streets the fear of laughter and ridicule dogging his mixed heels. Never before to have paused to philosophize over what had caused his wasted life! Too much imagination! Mental strabismus! He had let his over-sensitive imagination wreck and ruin him.
But even that seemed less terrible to bear than the thought that he should never know how much she loved him that at any rate would be spared her; the squalid room itself, which seemed to be waiting for him, told her that he would be here soon. Suddenly her over-sensitive ears caught the sound of distant footsteps drawing near; her heart gave a wild leap of joy! Was it Percy at last?
'Yes, sure, and there leave it, father, said Mrs Meagles the kind-hearted and comfortable. 'Why, mother, no, returned Mr Meagles, 'not exactly there. I can't quite leave it there; I must say just half-a-dozen words more. Mrs Gowan, I hope I am not over-sensitive. I believe I don't look it. 'Indeed you do not, said Mrs Gowan, shaking her head and the great green fan together, for emphasis.
Having thus effectually, and to his own satisfaction, fixed the child's attention on the morbid and over-sensitive workings of her own heart, the good and truly kind-hearted man dismissed her with a fatherly benediction. But where was the joyous ecstasy of that beautiful Sabbath morning of a year ago? Where was that heavenly friend?
It was, however, the decisive and ready manner in which he answered his interrogator that was so characteristic of the man, and which so appealed to the meeting as to elicit a hearty volley of cheers. Mr. Chamberlain was never easily disconcerted, nor was he ever a touchy, over-sensitive man.
"I have heard, by a side wind," he foamed, "that a meeting was held, two days ago, up at the Vicarage, when it was decided that you should hold lectures in this school my school. I wasn't asked to attend. . . . And of course you will jump to the conclusion that I am over-sensitive, huffed for my own sake. It isn't that! . . . I am huffed maddened if you will for the sake of my calling.
The truth about Bibbs was in the poem which Edith had adopted: he had so thoroughly formed the over-sensitive habit of hiding his feelings that no doubt he had forgotten by this time where he had put some of them, especially those which concerned himself. But he had not hidden his feelings about his father where they could not be found.
I don't think there are many poets in the sense of creators; but of those sensitive natures which reflect themselves naturally in soft and melodious words, pleading for sympathy with their joys and sorrows, every literature is full. Nature carves with her own hands the brain which holds the creative imagination, but she casts the over-sensitive creatures in scores from the same mould.
'Such things are a gift, humbly say the good people who are under the influence of an artist, and because cheerful and exalted effects, according to their good-natured view, must quite inevitably have cheerful and exalted origins, nobody suspects that we may perhaps have here a most questionable 'gift, most evilly conditioned ... It is known that artists are over-sensitive well, it is also known that this is not the case with people of good conscience and well-founded self-esteem ... You see, Lisaveta, at the bottom of my soul translated into the intellectual I have all the suspicion of the artist type with which each one of my honorable forefathers up yonder in that cramped city would have encountered any charlatan or adventurous 'artist' that might have entered his house.
No third person can interfere with any hope of success." "And you," she said, "can let a girl like that, your own wife, go out of your life and make no effort to detain her!" He nodded. "For two pins," said Lady Linden, "I would box your ears, Hugh Alston." Perhaps she was over-sensitive and a little unreasonable, but she would not admit it.
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