She had not been made sleepy, as Chris had; but the keen edge of her vitality had been blunted, and she was experiencing a sweet and pleasing
lassitude. And while the message was being read, in her eyes persisted the vision of her mother.
Being no longer able, however, to receive pleasure from the surrounding objects, she soon began to walk with
lassitude; the general perceived it, and with a concern for her health, which seemed to reproach her for her opinion of him, was most urgent for returning with his daughter to the house.
At this moment, when, with the exception of the principal individual, a general
lassitude was getting the mastery of the travellers, and every eye was cast, by a sort of common impulse, wistfully forward, the whole party was brought to a halt, by a spectacle, as sudden as it was unexpected.
"The flame flickers in the eye; the eye shines like dew; it looks soft and full of feeling; it smiles at my jargon: it is susceptible; impression follows impression through its clear sphere; where it ceases to smile, it is sad; an unconscious
lassitude weighs on the lid: that signifies melancholy resulting from loneliness.
Numbness and
lassitude crept upon her, and she was beginning to hope that she was only dreaming it all when he roused her by saying,
Some close observers, indeed, detected a feverish flush and alternate paleness of countenance, with corresponding flow and revulsion of spirits, and once or twice a painful and helpless betrayal of
lassitude, as if she were on the point of sinking to the ground.
; the weather, neither too warm nor too cold, but of that happy temperature which stirs the blood, without bringing the
lassitude of spring.
