It is difficult to believe that any boy, however great his Exhibitory passion, could permit, in the full possession of his sensibilities, a needle to be thrust deeply into his flesh without manifestations of a most unmesmeric sort.
"Mark Twain, A Biography, Vol. 1, Part 1, 1835-1866 The Personal And Literary Life Of Samuel Langhorne Clemens"
Albert Bigelow Paine
This increases his attractiveness to youthful minds, but to a nature like Hawthorne's anything of an Exhibitory character must always be unpleasant.
"The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne"
Frank Preston Stearns