To some women, the knowledge that a thing must be brings assuagement of the nerves.
The one assuagement for the pain in her own heart seemed to be the alleviation of the pain in other hearts.
The more she felt within her soul that nameless sadness which no outside help could relieve, the more she felt it urgent upon her to relieve the wants of others when this assuagement lay within her actual power.
She was not of the weak fiber to find assuagement in many tears, nor had she nerves that needed the chemical soothing of flooded eyes.
They witnessed the fever raging in his blood--the fever that clamored for assuagement from her.
This was not love, as she understood it, but a terrible possession which might find assuagement in inflicting some fearful harm upon what it affected to hold dear.
