Why shouldn't a governess have passions, all the passions, even that of libertinage, and even ungovernable passions; yet suppressed by the very same means which keep the rest of us in order: early training--necessity--circumstances--fear of consequences; till there comes an age, a time when the restraint of years becomes intolerable--and
infatuation irresistible .
And how strange an
infatuation on Frederick's side!
Nor was this hidden
infatuation of any recent origin.
And it was well for me that I did hear it; for nothing less could have cured my
infatuation. I always said and thought, that I would never believe a word against you, unless I heard it from your own lips.
She was still under the spell of her
infatuation. She had tried to forget him, realizing the inutility of remembering.
The impertinence of the Eltons, which for a few minutes had threatened to ruin the rest of her evening, had been the occasion of some of its highest satisfactions; and she looked forward to another happy resultthe cure of Harriet's
infatuation. From Harriet's manner of speaking of the circumstance before they quitted the ballroom, she had strong hopes.
You must know, then, that the above-named gentleman whenever he was at leisure (which was mostly all the year round) gave himself up to reading books of chivalry with such ardour and avidity that he almost entirely neglected the pursuit of his field-sports, and even the management of his property; and to such a pitch did his eagerness and
infatuation go that he sold many an acre of tillageland to buy books of chivalry to read, and brought home as many of them as he could get.
But public and private distress will keep pace with each other in gloomy concert; and unite in deploring the
infatuation of those counsels which led to disunion.
Had they quarrelled already, or was his
infatuation passed?
Gossip had filtered to Anne regarding the light in which the Gardners viewed the "
infatuation" of son and brother.
Michael's love for Steward was so profound as almost to he a mad but enduring
infatuation. What the steward's regard for Michael was coming to be was best evidenced by his conversation with Captain Duncan.
The one remedy that could be trusted to preserve him from such
infatuation as this, was absence.
