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Updated: June 6, 2025
Were there no moral code, were there no social system, nor the consequent inculcated conscience to be responsible to, there would be no such disguising symptom as the disease which preoccupies the consciousness. The feeling of insufficiency would be there, and would be recognized as in itself the disease.
And the sun poured down its untempered rays on the condemned. But more pitiless than carts or streets or sun were the coarse Jacobins who ran alongside. With what fine wit they shouted "Long live the razor of the Republic!" A newsvendor began to sing, and was joined in chorus "Doctor Guillotin, That great médécin Love of human kind Preoccupies his mind."
It is the deepest curse of such a life as his that it directs the imagination in channels of meanness, and preoccupies the thought with sordid fears. What would it avail him, in the present instance, to call the shopman to witness? The note, ten to one, would be paid away, and here also a man's word was worth nothing.
I say, can a man who after his betrothal voluntarily preoccupies himself with these multifarious functions be held I will not say to have disqualified himself for that willing exchange of confidence which is the surest guarantee of lasting happiness between man and wife but to have raised such obstacles to the fulfilment of the original contract as reasonably warrant the accusation of mala fides?"
For, unless the illustration be fanciful, the object which I am contemplating is like the impression of a seal upon the wax; which rounds off and gives form to the greater portion of the soft material, and presents something definite to the eye, and preoccupies the space against any second figure, so that we overlook and leave out of our thoughts the jagged outline or unmeaning lumps outside of it, intent upon the harmonious circle which fills the imagination within it.
Will there be any touch of sadness on the part of my mousme, or on my own, just a tightening of the heartstrings at the moment of our final farewell? At this moment I can imagine nothing of the sort. And then the adieus of Yves and Chrysantheme, what will they be? This question preoccupies me more than all.
Before taking his seat at the table upon which he draws, in the bright light from the tall windows, Risler has taken off his fine frock-coat, which embarrasses him, and has turned up his clean shirt-sleeves; but the idea that his wife is expecting company preoccupies and disturbs him; and from time to time he puts on his coat and goes up to her. "Has no one come?" he asks timidly.
Only one question preoccupies M. Joyeuse: "Will Andre's parents consent to this marriage? How will Dr. Jenkins, so rich, so celebrated, take it?" "Let us not speak of that man," said Andre, turning pale; "he is a wretch to whom I owe nothing who is nothing to me."
Before taking his seat at the table upon which he draws, in the bright light from the tall windows, Risler has taken off his fine frock-coat, which embarrasses him, and has turned up his clean shirt-sleeves; but the idea that his wife is expecting company preoccupies and disturbs him; and from time to time he puts on his coat and goes up to her. "Has no one come?" he asks timidly.
Men, without thought, men making a curious little confession in the busy street that they were not busy, that there is nothing in life at the moment that preoccupies them that a broken automobile is a godsend, a diversion, a drama, a great happiness. I smoked my pipe, he says, and began to wonder again. Why did they stare like this? And at what? And who were these staring ones?
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