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James Joyce

A Painful Case

  • b5825192143has quoted3 years ago
    He turned back the way he had come, the rhythm of the engine pounding in his ears. He began to doubt the reality of what memory told him. He halted under a tree and allowed the rhythm to die away. He could not feel her near him in the darkness nor her voice touch his ear. He waited for some minutes listening. He could hear nothing: the night was perfectly silent. He listened again: perfectly silent. He felt that he was alone.
  • b5825192143has quoted3 years ago
    Why had he withheld life from her? Why had he sentenced her to death? He felt his moral nature falling to pieces.
  • b5825192143has quoted3 years ago
    No one wanted him; he was outcast from life's feast.
  • b5825192143has quoted3 years ago
    He thought that in her eyes he would ascend to an angelical stature; and, as he attached the fervent nature of his companion more and more closely to him, he heard the strange impersonal voice which he recognized as his own, insisting on the soul'S incurable loneliness.
  • b5825192143has quoted3 years ago
    Little by little he entangled his thoughts with hers. He lent her books, provided her with ideas, shared his intellectual life with her. She listened to all.
  • b5825192143has quoted3 years ago
    The pupil reasserted itself quickly, this half-disclosed nature fell again under the reign of prudence, and her astrakhan jacket, moulding a bosom of a certain fullness, struck the note of defiance more definitely.
  • aalaamutazhas quoted4 years ago
    Little by little he entangled his thoughts with hers.
  • b9620381011has quoted10 years ago
    Miss Mary Sinico said that of late her mother had been in the habit of
  • b9620381011has quoted10 years ago
    going out at night to buy spirits
  • b9620381011has quoted10 years ago
    He stood still to listen. Why had he withheld life from her? Why had he sentenced her to death? He felt his moral nature falling to pieces.
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