Nevertheless, she lingered a moment longer and again spoke of Norway on perceiving that nothing couldimpassion Hyacinthe except the idea of the eternal snow, the intense, purifying cold of the polar regions.
Father Dargeles alone retained the calmness of perfect serenity, for he had scented one of those cases which impassion people and redound to the glory of Our Lady of Lourdes.
It seems especially improbable that such a sentiment could obsess and impassion men who are seldom accustomed to thinking beyond the present moment.
By affirming themselves, they exalt and impassion themselves and attain a degree of violence which is translated by the corresponding violence of the gestures which express them.
Up to the present time she had contented herself with a vague interest in that which is the subject of emotion in others, but was powerless to impassion her, or capable at best of affording her a momentary distraction.
If they were unable sufficiently to entertain and amuse or even impassion her, the reason was that they were deficient in agreeableness and possessed no real merit in her eyes.
