Richard explained at length to his friend his relations with Miss Jeannie Farquharson, but he was too much of a Bayard to allude to Miss Beattison’s infatuation and its effect upon himself and his actions.
All thisinfatuation Gabriel saw, and was troubled thereby from the time of his daily journey a-field to the time of his return, and on to the small hours of many a night.
There was a substratum of good feeling in her: her self-reproach for the injury she had thoughtlessly done him might be depended upon now to a much greater extent than before her infatuation and disappointment.
Kit Raynham had been a general favourite in society, and his disappearance, taken in conjunction with the well-known fact of his infatuation for Magda, created a sensation.
It was a wild, incoherent outpouring--the headlong confession of a boy's half-crazed infatuation for a beautiful woman.
My love for you isn't just a boy's infatuation that you can dismiss with a word.
Lady Dalrymple, of course, thought this a fresh proof of his infatuation about Minnie, and wondered how he could be a friend to a man whom she considered as Minnie's persecutor and tormentor.
There seemed to her but one answer, and that was his infatuation for Minnie.
His true motives for this could not possibly be known to her, so she, of course, concluded that it was hisinfatuation for Minnie, and his determination to win her for himself.
He still clung to the strange infatuation that the people of Sweden might be persuaded to accept him as their king, and almost while in the act of seizing the Swedish hostages instructed Arcimboldo to beg the regent for a friendly conference.
At the very outset of his reign, he had displayed his first infatuation for foreign men by raising Mehlen to the highest honors of the state.
I had to confess that which often astonished me: this infatuation for an insipid nobody was very much to the advantage of my Senta.
To try to give ourinfatuation a higher place than Truth is a sign of inherent slavishness.
But now I feel sure that thisinfatuation is deep down in her nature.
Let suffering come to our house; let the best in me shrivel up and become black; but let this infatuation not leave me--such seems to be my prayer.
I will do so,' he replied, 'when I find your infatuation has left you.
I had hoped that when Bimala found herself free in the outer world she would be rescued from her infatuation for tyranny.
It seems to me, as it must to everybody else, that the refusal of the Turk is a mystery: for the infatuation of that cause seems to be so tremendous.
You may call it organized infatuation and mailed folly, yet it was a splendid spectacle.
The Turkish Government is evidently in such a state of infatuation that it is fain to believe it may, under certain circumstances, be infatuated enough to scheme the extermination of the Christian population.
I should suppose that any one, however inexperienced in such matters, could easily see Leicester's infatuation for Dorothy.
She did not realize that the most dangerous, watchful enemy to her cherished scheme would be a man who was himself in love with her, even though he were a servant, and she looked on Thomas's evident infatuation with a smile.
Even his second great experiment for power was but the infatuation repeated.
At length the long infatuation was consummated in his march from Paris; the Allies marched to Paris; and Napoleon was instantly deposed, outlawed, and undone.
His infatuation must indeed be palpable, since even a common officer can read his secret in a moment.
Every one knows and has discussed the matter of Anna Cleeve's infatuation for Anthony Kinsella.
Judy flew to pen and paper to let me know that my "infatuation for Tony Kinsella" was the most interesting topic of conversation in Salisbury, and that the kindest thing any one found to say was: "What a pity he is already married!
It was evident that a spirit ofinfatuation had taken deep root in America, and it was easy to foresee that confusion and bloodshed would one day ensue.
While the spirit of revolt was daily gaining strength and determination in America, a strange infatuation reigned in the British councils.
The implied infatuation and credulity of a generation which could be roused to such barbarity by such insignificant causes is a most defamatory impeachment of the sagacity, manhood, and humaneness of our forefathers.
Their infatuation was not first on the practical, but on the theoretical side.
But did their infatuation so affect them as to bring obtuseness upon their external senses and their intellectual ability for discerning the nature, character, and force of testimony and evidence?
Infatuation still lingers on the earth, blinding many bright eyes.
They may have been infatuated, but their infatuation did not act in that direction.
To suspect them of such credulity or infatuation is to suspect and impeach the truth and accuracy of the very history which makes them so clearly and fully known to us.
Thus he assumed that the mass of people in Boston were under such an infatuation as could and did cause them to believe that very successful guessing required the devil's help!
Had thatinfatuation begun even then, which had robbed her of her dearest--her Benjamin?
Had he been alone, he would have led a chaste life until some new and available infatuation seized him.
What her thoughts were at that time, she was not now willing to recall, for they had involved the probable desertion or divorce, or death of Angela, and Eugene's passionate infatuation for her.
Men recover from these things, particularly from an infatuation of this character, and the world thinks nothing of it; but the world will not forgive you.
For Arthur's infatuation she still could have only scorn, however kindly the scorn might be.
Its permanence had looked so assured a few short weeks ago, when Oliver's infatuation was a thing to smile over in amused secrecy.
It is an infatuation and a most unfortunate one, but it must run its course.
Except on the principle that people are always attracted by their opposites, I can't account for his infatuation for this girl, or for her taking up with him.
She's just so blinded by her infatuation for Ida that she can't see my side of the matter at all.
When she has outgrown her infatuation she will see that you have done her a kindness instead of a wrong, and she will thank you deeply.
It's inconceivable that he alone should stand out against the infatuation of the whole world.
Not that I doubted the infatuation of Roderick Anthony, but I was pleased to hear something which proved that she was sensible and open to the sentiment of gratitude which in this case was significant.
Of all infatuations connected with what is foreign, the infatuation about everything that is German, to a certain extent prevalent in England, is assuredly the most ridiculous.
Sensible men beheld the extraordinary infatuation of the people with sorrow and alarm.
Such stories as these, confidently related by men high in station, tended to keep up theinfatuation of the alchymists in every country of Europe.
These resolutions answering the end designed, the directors, to improve the infatuation of the monied men, opened their books for a second subscription of a million, at four hundred per cent.
Denis Zachaire, an alchymist of the sixteenth century, has performed this task, and left a record of his folly and infatuation in pursuit of the philosopher's stone, which well repays perusal.
It will be seen that the infatuation increased rather than diminished as the world grew older.
He resumed his wandering life, and travelled in Germany and Hungary, supporting himself as he went on the credulity and infatuation of all classes of society.
The South-Sea project remained until 1845 the greatest example in British history of the infatuation of the people for commercial gambling.
The infatuation of himself and his patients cannot be better expressed than in his own words.
