He was like summer's morning sunlight, his warmth striking instantly through her blood dispersed any hesitating strangeness that sometimes gathers during absences, caused by girlish dread of a step to take, or shame at the step taken, when Coldish gentlemen rather create these backflowings and gaps in the feelings.
"The Tragic Comedians, Complete"
George Meredith Last Updated: March 7, 2009
Pity not being stirred, her admiration of the hero declared victorious, whose fortunes in uncertainty had stopped the beating of her heart, was eclipsed by gratitude toward his preserver, and a sentiment eclipsed becomes temporarily Coldish, against our wish and our efforts, in a way to astonish; making her think that she cannot hold two sentiments at a time; when it is but the fact that she is unable to keep the two equally warm.
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George Meredith
Then, while lamb gets Coldish, A goose that is oldish- At carving not clever- You're begged to dissever, And when you thus treat it, Find no one will eat it.
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Thomas Hood