I felt the impetus of this undiffused, undissipated passion, in its undivided strength, stir and vitalise all my energies, and its power over my own frame made me involuntarily, instinctively confident of the power it would have over hers.
"To-morrow?"
Victoria Cross
More terrible because more inhuman than the agony imagined by the great tragic poet is that most awful condition of the soul into which I had passed-when the cruelty that seems to work at Nature's heart, and to vitalise a dark universe of pain, loses its mysterious aspect and becomes a mockery; when the whole vast and merciless scheme seems too monstrous to be confronted save by mad peals of derisive laughter-that dreadful laughter which bubbles lower than the fount of tears-that laughter which is the heart's last language; when no words can give it the relief of utterance-no words, nor wails, nor moans.
"Aylwin"
Theodore Watts-Dunton
He did not know that by perpetually feeling on my bosom the facets of the beloved jewel which had long lain warm upon hers-the cross which had received the last kiss from her lips-I had been able to focus all the scattered rays of thought-I had been able to vitalise memory till it became an actual presence.
"Aylwin"
Theodore Watts-Dunton