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... in a conventional tragedy might have affected the confidant if a personal emotion had ever been permitted to the latter. That a princess could only b... ...ented, for every conceivable chance, a margin, an outer sphere, of general emotion; and the effect of the occurrence of anything in particular was to ... ... moments as even more agitated than pleasure re- quired. It was a state of emotion in her that could scarce represent simply an impatience to report a... ... her truth, that he had learnt it from herself as no one had yet done, her emotion had, by the fact, dried up. There she was; but it was as if she wou... ... a “new book,” an uncut volume of the highest, the rarest quality; and his emotion (to justify that) was again and again like the thrill of turning th... ...est of the proposition drop, but touch- ing again thus sufficiently on the outrage even to taste involved in one’s having to see. So then it had been—...

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...sign, regret in the separation from many companions -- that I am in danger of wearying the reader whom I love, with personal confidences, and private emotions....

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...wearying the reader whom I love, with personal confi- dences, and private emotions. Besides which, all that I could say of the Story, to any purpose,... ... in danger of wearying the reader with personal confidences and pri- vate emotions. Besides which, all that I could have said of the Story to any pur... ...e and stopped myself. For good, too; though, in consequence of my previous emotions, I was still occasionally seized with a stormy sob. After we had j... ...bserved you, within a few minutes, urging your juniors on to every sort of outrage against me, you are mistaken. I don t give myself the trouble of ... ...es, and the feeling with which I regarded him, un- dutiful if I showed the emotion which dis- tressed me. He was very angry with Traddles, and said he... ...n her own mind that she had, and it was all the same to her. The one great outrage of her life, demanding to be constantly avenged, was the passage of... ...ere are people enough to tread upon me in my lowly state, without my doing outrage to their feelings by possessing learn- ing. Learning ain t for me. ... ...m me with a shock, like a ball fired from a rifle: but the image of Agnes, outraged by so much as a thought of this red- headed animal s, remained in ... ...one. I do not wish to revive the memory of past differ- ences, or of past outrages. I have received out- rages from a person a female I am sorry to s...

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.... Don’t attempt to deny it. Ye did! Damnable, oh damnable!” He choked with emotion. McT urk’s heel tapped the lawn and he stuttered a little—two sure ... ...ing the rag-carpet before the speckless hearth, and the sofa heaved to the emotions of Beetle. Through the thick glass the figures without showed blue... ...es without showed blue, distorted, and menacing. “I—I protest against this outrage.” King had evidently been running up hill. “The man was entirely wi... ...of a fellow-countryman, the lesson of their race, which is to put away all emotion and entrap the alien at the proper time. So far good. King was impo... ...ame out of the Head’s house, eyes noted that the one was red and blue with emotion as to his nose, and that the other was sweating profusely. That sig... ... inquiry; and—frankly, I think he deserved all he got.” “They deliberately outraged Mason’s best feelings,” said Prout. “A word to me on their part wo... ...ir thoughts clearly to themselves. They felt savagely that they were being outraged by a fat man who considered marbles a game. And so he worked towar... ...as further (I give the barest handful from great store) a Flopshus Cad, an Outrageous Stinker, a Jelly-bellied Flag-flapper (this was Stalky’s contri-... ...roposition is Rudyard Kipling that the Sixth can’t protect ‘emselves from outrages an’ ravishin’s. Want nursemaids to look after ‘em! We’ve only got ...

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...e?” By that time he had raised his eyebrows too but without any particular emotion. On the contrary he struck me then as ab- solutely imperturbable. “... ...high matters at that— ships, freights, business. In the instability of his emotions man resembles deplorably a monkey. I was disgusted with my thought... ...sence, which, suggesting his brother the merchant, had caused me to become outrageous to myself. For indeed I had preserved some decency of feeling. I... ...een spoken to by a strange man adding to my assurance. I don’t know why an emotional tense- 34 A Smile of Fortune ness should have crept into the sit... ...hat old woman. What if she ordered me to depart? She seemed capable of any outrage. She had snorted once or twice; she was knitting violently. Suddenl... ...s say, with Miss Jacobus, that it is for no good. Y ou seem to believe the outrageous things she says, if you do have a row with her now and then.” Sh... ...d heard once before on her lips, and which thrilled me again with the same emotion: “I would believe you. But what about papa—” “He be hanged!” My emo... ...ill-gotten booty. During that stealthy act I experienced the last touch of emotion in that house, at the thought of the girl I had left sitting there ...

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...and on such occasions the stakes went higher. Those were evenings of great emotion to the old blind sister. The baroness would give her sundry hints b... ...e would be forced to separate without either loss or gain, but not without emotion. On these sad evenings complaints were made of mouche itself; it wa... ...hat kind, the players and the visi- tors present looked at each other with emotion, distressed by the sadness of the king of Guerande; and after they ... ... could not conceal it. In all human faces there is a spot where the secret emotions of the heart betray themselves; and these com- panions, accustomed... ...ion of his face the events of the evening. But he caused her, as usual, an emotion that frequency never weakened,—an emotion which all lov- ing mother... ...s was awaiting her, and hiding, as best she could, the draggled tail of an outrageously muddy gown. In short, she had by this time so perfectly persua... ...eath itself. But, by a manoeuvre of Maxime’s, that blow to her pride, that outrage which women secure of their rank in Olympus cast upon others who ha...

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...uggest his stamping his name to such an opin- ion before the world, was an outrage. Mrs. Fleming was failing in health. On that plea, with the solemni... ...m showing it to Mrs. Sumfit, who 14 Rhoda Fleming peeped in awe, and that emotion subsiding, shed tears abun- dantly. Why it was to be kept secret, t... ..., and I say it now. But, I’ll tell you what, brother William John, it’s an emotion when you’ve got bags of thousands of pounds in your arms.” Ordinari... ...eeling for herself. Her passion was fixed upon her sister, whose record of emotions in the letters from London placed her beyond dull days and nights.... ...lank!” said the farmer, turning his look from face to face. A deep fire of emotion was evidently agitating him, for the letter rustled in his hand, an... ...gs of him, as civilization did. This he thought in the vengefulness of his outraged mind. Not only had Algernon never failed to dine every day of his ... ...s. Lovell had not won her bet. What was heroism to Warbeach, appeared very outrageous blackguardism up at Fairly. It was there believed by the gentlem... ...or he ground his teeth villanously in supposing himself the victim of this outrageous suspicion. And how to prove it false? How to prove it false in a... ...e looked at himself, and compared himself with the class of persons he had outraged, and tried to think better of him- self, and to justify himself, a...

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...editor saw fit to be malignant. Perhaps you have met that flaming sense of outraged virtue, or perhaps you have only felt it. He ran me hard. It seeme... ...y possibilities of such a substance, and will sympathise a little with the emotion I felt as this understanding emerged from the haze of abstruse phra... ... muddy lump of hand, and staggered a pace towards me. His face worked with emotion, little lumps of mud kept falling from it. He looked as damaged and... ...” I lay for a space taking this in. I saw his face still bore evidences of emotion. For a while I said nothing. I passed an inquisitive hand over my c... ...r, “they will want to learn about the earth. Even if they have no generous emotions, they will teach in order to learn. … And the things they must kno... ...n. I saw his little face, dark and blue, and shining with perspiration and emotion. 106 The First Men in the Moon He was saying something, but what i... ... He ran amuck, killed three, and perforce I had to flee with him after the outrage. Subsequently we fought with a number who endeavoured to bar our wa...

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...er, tolerant of agglutinated humanity, felt him- 9 Wharton self obscurely outraged by these promiscuous contacts. It was as though all the people abo... ...much as its pressure of human significance, all its hidden implications of emotion and adventure. As they passed the shadowy colonnade of the Francais... ...whom she could unfold and shake out to the light her poor little shut-away emotions. Y ears of repression were revealed in her sudden burst of confide... ...f what she felt. But she was evi- dently unused to analyzing her aesthetic emotions, and the tu- multuous rush of the drama seemed to have left her in... ...words had moved him; but his thoughts were blurred by the rush of the same emotion that possessed her, and his own words came with an effort. He ended... ...er youthful fancy a throng of romantic associations, poetic, pictorial and emotional; and the serene face of the old house seated in its park among th... ... Come, let’s make it grin from wing to wing! I’ve such a mad desire to say outrageous things to it —haven’t you? After all, in old times there must ha... ...the face. The girl had been in a desperate plight—frightened, penni- less, outraged by what had happened, and not knowing (with a woman like Mrs. Murr... ... he too was waiting. Anna felt a thrill of resentment: his presence was an outrage on her sorrow, a hu- miliation to her pride. It was strange that he...

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...to flow with, and to pass in and out of, his thoughts, to be a part of his emotion and his meaning when it shone transiently full. For as he had an or... ...thed as one who draws in fire. Grizzled Agostino glittered with suppressed emotion, like a frosted thorn-bush in the sunlight. Ugo Corte had his thick... ...e whole truth, the sense that he was undertaking a narrative gave him such emotions as a bad swimmer upon deep seas may have; while, on the other hand... ...gi. The letter was placed in his hands, and he sat as strongly thrilled by emotion, un- der the mask of his hard face, as a lover hearing music. “I re... ... She replied, ‘It is best, when one is too weak to resist, to submit to an outrage quietly.’ General Pierson at once took the position assigned to him... ...r arm, and the stilet flashes into Camilla’s bosom. ‘Die then, and outrage me no more.’ Camilla staggers to her husband. Camillo receives her ... ...his sword, play Arlecchino, do what you please. He is not required for any outrageous performance. A week, and Angelo will have re- covered his streng... ...ommanding personal coolness. She who had tamed a madman by her beauty, was outraged, and not unnatu- rally, by the indifference of a former lover. Lat... ...second story was true: and the something like lover’s wrath with which the outrage to Vittoria fired Pericles, prompted him to act on it as truth. 42...

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...ed and made manifest in this contrivance of wood and iron. There can be no outrage, methinks, against our common nature—whatever be the delinquencies ... ...ainst our common nature—whatever be the delinquencies of the individual—no outrage more flagrant than to forbid the culprit to hide his face for shame... ...reathed intervolutions in open sight. His face darkened with some powerful emotion, which, nev ertheless, he so instantaneously controlled by an effo... ...forbidden sympathy, awakening only terror and horrible re pugnance. These emotions, in fact, and its bitterest scorn besides, seemed to be the sole p... ...rgyman shrank, with ner vous dread, from the light missile. Detecting his emotion, Pearl clapped her little hands in the most extravagant ec stacy. ... ... gifts, his moral perceptions, his power of experiencing and communicating emotion, were kept in a state of preternatural activity by the prick and an... ...let letter, inflicted so much of misery and wrought out no repentance? The emotion of that brief space, while she stood gazing after the crooked figur...

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...im with a kind of screw in her face and carriage, expressive of suppressed emotion, flung her arms around his neck, and said, in a choking voice, ‘My ... ...r sanguine his disposition, hope to offer a remark that would be a greater outrage on human nature in general, we would beg to leave the discus- sion ... ...ondering whether they ever happened and were not found out. As his unusual emotion subsided, these misgivings gradu- ally melted away, though so much ... ..., and perhaps the result of an effort equally great, he allowed no sign of emotion to escape him. When he had read it through, he folded and refolded ... ...t look so bad as you’ d suppose,’ returned Jemima. ‘ Ah!’ said Polly, with emotion, ‘I knew his legs must be too short.’ His legs is short,’ returned ... ... for—you’ll excuse my being so free—in this jail of a house!’ Miss Berry’s emotion might have led to her patting Paul too hard on the back, or might h... ... such cases. The feelings of Mrs MacStinger, as a woman and a mother, were outraged by the look of pity for Alexander which she observed on Florence’s...

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.... The ladies were too deeply impressed to pursue their play with him. Real emotions at once set aside the semi-credence they had given to their own su... ...from his ridiculous perplexity of feeling. Besides though her voice struck emotion, she herself was unimpressionable. “Cold by nature,” he said; looki... ..., delicate thing, incapable of bearing much: revenge- ful, too, when it is outraged. Bruised and disfigured, it stood up still, and fought against the... ...g comparable to it in charity of sentiment, when I consider the detestable outrage Hillford suffered under. The parading of the drum, the trombone, a ... ...ere he, Wilfrid, was? An odd touch of curiosity, peculiar to the lan- guid emotions, made him ask her this: and to her soft “Yes,” he continued briskl... ...ire to change their residence, the fit of shyness was manifested, first in outrageous praise 91 George Meredith of Brookfield, which was speedily and... ...eir histories as much by distaste as by appetite. This fresh senti- mental emotion, which led them to glorify their mother’s image in their hearts, he... ...r at my hands.” “Oh!” went Mr. Pole, in the voice of a man whose reason is outraged. The placidity of Cornelia’s reply was not with- out its effect on... ...one by one, and treated them each to a horrible scene of gesticulation and outraged English. H accused their brother of conduct which they were oblige...

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...that shun the policeman have nothing of its subtle wicked- ness. It was an outrage upon the natural kindliness of men. The contents were all admirably... ...ther of sex or (what I have always found inseparable from a kind of sexual emotion) beauty. Even as a boy I knew the thing as a haunting and alluring ... ...ed himself to that. And after such talk we would fall upon great pauses of emotional dreaming, and if by chance we passed a girl in a governess cart, ... ...he moored boat beneath our feet. Then, very obvious and simple, the little emotion of standing out from the homeland and seeing the long white Kentish... ... and 106 The New Machiavelli purposeful amidst its vales and rivers, that emotion of col- lective ends and collective purposes has returned to me. I ... ...my visit. I was working up there, or rather trying to work in spite of the outrageous capering of some very primitive ele- ments in my brain, when she... ... and quite inadvertently in my attempt to find solutions I talked so as to outrage his profoundest feelings… . 7 7 7 7 7 What a preposterous shindy th... ...strange for comment or emotion—how her father had been shot and her sister outraged and murdered before her eyes. It was as if one had dipped into som... ...must make confessions and put things before her that would be the grossest outrage upon the noble purity I attributed to her. 9 9 9 9 9 I went to Marg...

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...the slowly moving meteor she beheld, denoted that a cigar was soothing the emotions excited by their dia- logue. She mused long over that revelation o... ...Her amiability, therefore, only strengthened Henry’s sense of his brothers outrage, and his resolve to call him to account. It was impossible that nig... ...man who had well known his father, and who spoke with scarcely con- cealed emotion, ‘it becomes my painful duty to commit you to Whitford Gaol for tri... ... down; and could only cover his face with his hands, and struggle with his emotion, unable to utter a word. Yet perhaps none would have been so comfor... ...d prisoners are not cut off from church.’ Dr. May pressed his hand in much emotion: and there was a silence before another question—whether there were... ...unds of prudence. His words indeed brought a tremulous flicker of grateful emotion over the prisoner’s face; but by carrying the 207 Yo n g e inquiry... ...riendly; though in hitherto unvisited places, or in those where the wanton outrages of sandal-wood traders had 390 The Trial excited distrust, cautio...

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...lowed him up there, and found him pacing to and fro; for the nature of his emotions made him restless even in his most thoughtful moments. 17 Joseph ... ...only lan- guid phrases on things without importance, as though we had been emotionally jaded by our long day’s talk on the only mo- mentous subject. A... ...not blame Jasper for not wasting his time in corre- spondence with such an outrageous relative. But why didn’t he write to me -a decent sort of friend... ...houghts. “Is that how you entertain your visitors—you . . “ he thought, so outraged that he could not find a sufficiently degrading epithet. Freya str... ...n a chair near the doorway and kept 35 Joseph Conrad her eyes on him. The outraged lieutenant had not changed his attitude; only his cap had fallen o... ...retty tale this to get about! But it must not be allowed to get about. The outrage had to be swallowed in silence. A pretty affair! Fooled, led on, an... ... The Neptun gunboat of H.M. the King of the Nether- lands, commanded by an outraged and infuriated lieutenant, left the cove at an unexpectedly early ... ...harm to you, Captain Allen. I feel it, and I—” He choked with inexplicable emotion. “All right, Schultz. I won’t give him an opening.” Jasper cut him ... ...urned to the contemplation of his brig, that main-stay of his material and emotional existence which would be soon in his hands again. On a sea, calm ...

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... chamber-maid, and the man-servant stood in the dining-room and shared the emotions of their masters. “Messieurs,” said Simon Giguet, “some among you ... ...rt, God knows what dreadful misfortune would have overtaken us. This cruel emotion produced in Madame de l’Estorade a nervous condition which seriousl... ...ough Thorwaldsen. But, on opening the letter what was my amazement, and my emotion, in presence of its opening words:— Monsieur my Son,— The letter wa... ...ay into the crowd. A girl who took my part so warmly, and then showed such emotion on being detected in doing so, could not be absolutely indifferent ... ...y dear friend, that I rattle on about myself and say no word about the sad emotions which must attend your return to France? How can you bear them? An... ... you were good to me and by your generous protection I escaped an infamous outrage, my heart has been wholly yours.” Sallenauve, who had never suspect...

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...icry, ‘yang—yang—yang!’ and killed the bright laugh, shot it dead. She had outraged the decorum of the square- table only while the cards were making.... ...quire; and it was probably the reason (as there is no reason to suppose an emotional cause) why she exercised her evident sway over the mind of so pla... ...id he listen to it, to sustain the thing. Grimly lord of himself, he stood emotionless before the world. Some worthy fellows resemble him, and they ar... ...a curious perversity that the two men she had moved were merely excellent, emotionless, ordinary men, with heads for business. Elsewhere, out of Engla... ...is woman sought rather to punish than be rid of her. But a part of his own emotion went to form the judge- ment. Furthermore, Lady Dunstane’s allusion... ...hat the passing of a face and figure like Diana’s might inspire honourable emotions, pitiable for being hapless. ‘If you were with me, dear, you would... ...d in the family by his uncle’s extraordi- nary dying request. They were an outrage to the lady , of whom he could now speak as a privileged champion; ... ...an, highly civilized, an excellent citizen and a patriot, he was icy at an outrage to his prin- ciples, and in the dominion of Love a sultan of the bo... ...you? And besides again, I burn to make a last brave appearance. I have not outraged the world, dear Emmy, whatever certain creatures in it may fancy.’...

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...eman’s lips moved. He was praying internally to God for him. By degrees an emotion awoke in the boy’s bosom. Love is that blessed wand which wins the ... ...irst manifestation, call the uneasy spirit, Algernon’s Leg. Mrs. Doria was outraged. She maintained that her child had seen—— Not to believe in it was... ...nk so?” Richard had never been acquainted with any of them to inspire that emotion. Indeed these urgent appeals to his fancy in feminine names at five... ...of the prophecy, she that was to fulfil it! The youth was too charged with emotion to speak. Doubt- less the damsel had less to think of, or had some ... ... and recompense him. Mr. Thompson received his client with the dignity and emotion due to such a rent-roll and the unexpectedness of the honour. He wa... ...or youth in silent subjection. And it was horrible. For it was a continued outrage on the fair image he had in his heart. The notion of the world laug... ...he morrow. The System, wedded to Time, slept, and knew not how he had been outraged—an- ticipated by seven pregnant seasons. For Time had heard the he... ... victim to console her. Then Mrs. Doria told him her thoughts,—and when an outraged ener- getic lady is finally brought to exhibit these painfully hoa... ...m. But they kindly looked over him. Occasionally one committed a momentary outrage on him with an eye-glass, seeming to cry out in a voice of scathing...

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...bly, who stood respectful and silent, except for some suppressed tokens of emotion, for in truth to many the parting was from an old familiar and much... ...hands, taking theirs and shed- ding tears, and they with him—tears of warm emotion too deep for words. He was evidently surprised at the effect pro- d... ...p spirituality of the man, and the love we bore him for years, touched the emotional part of us.’ The text was significant: ‘We preach not ourselves, ... ...rave, and then walked on. ‘ At intervals I felt a return of strong violent emotion, but I soon became calm; I read most of the way up, and felt sur- p... ...boats’ crews having been lost among them, but in most cases there had been outrage to provoke reprisals. These islands had as yet been little visited,... ...s,” as much as to say, Now there will be a regular visitation of them, and outrages committed on the natives will probably be discovered. ‘Well, on we... ...e was reason to fear that in Malanta the restraint might be regarded as an outrage on the person of a chief. The voyage safely ended on the night of t... ...land, he had been cruising in the New Hebrides. There some of the frequent outrages of the traders had made the people savage and suspicious, and one ... ...company with the ‘Curacoa’ at the time, but had no knowledge either of the outrage or the chastisement, till Sir William Wiseman mentioned it to him w...

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...ld be humane, even sisterly, with women whose con- duct or prattle did not outrage plain sense, just as the stick- ler for the privileges of her class... ...yburn was Cuper’s Matey Weyburn still in his loathing of artifice to raise emotion, loathing of the affected, the stilted, the trum- pet of speech—alw... ...nd angry giant. Her minor intelligence, caracoling unhampered by harassing emotions, rebuked Aminta’s for not perceiving that to win him round to what... ...he end of her journey, and not per- ceiving any spot of pleasure ahead, an emotion urged her to turn back; for the young are acutely reasoning when th... .... Her agitation was untimely. Both Mrs. Pagnell and Mr. Morsfield observed emotion at work. And who could won- der? A wife denied the admittance to he... ...n some degree, in his dumb way. 215 George Meredith Offended women can be emotional to a towering pride, that bends while it assumes unbendingness: i...