Recollection
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The first impulse of the peddler was certainly flight; but recovering his recollection, he fixed his eye on the coffin of his parent, and passed the dragoon with a firm step but swelling heart.
Captain Lawton made a movement as if he was disposed to follow the procession, when it left the highway, to enter the field which contained the graves of the humble dead, but he was recalled to
recollection
by a hint from his companion that he was taking the wrong road.
The liquor, however, performed its wonted office; and before the second sentinel at the door had been relieved, all
recollection
of the dinner and their cares was lost in the present festivity.
The instant that Frances recovered her recollection, she perceived that she owed her life Lo Lawton, and throwing herself on her knees, she cried,-"Sarah!
Miss Peyton and her niece flew, with a rapture that was blessed with a momentary forgetfulness of all but her preservation, to receive Sarah from the trooper; but the vacant eye and flushed cheek restored them instantly to their
recollection.
There were moments, indeed, when her anxious companions thought that they could discern marks of recollection; but the expression of exquisite woe that accompanied these transient gleams of reason, forced them to the dreadful alternative of wishing that she might forever be spared the agony of thought.
"Promise me, then," said Wharton, musing awhile in silence, "that as soon as the
recollection
of my fate is softened, you will give my friend that hand for life, and I am satisfied."
She, with all the reliance of affection, reposed in security on the assurance of Dunwoodie, without harassing herself with doubts that she possessed not the means of satisfying; but believing her lover able to accomplish everything that man could do, and retaining a vivid
recollection
of the manner and benevolent appearance of Harper, she abandoned herself to all the felicity of renovated hope.
Caesar wriggled a little in his chair, but he had sufficient
recollection
to conceal his face with hands that were, in their turn, concealed by gloves.
The unaccountable energy of the peddler's manner was soon forgotten in the sense of his own immediate danger; and with the
recollection
of his critical situation, returned all the uneasiness that he had momentarily forgotten.
He was already the acknowledged hero of an age of reason and truth; and many a young heart, amongst those who formed the pride of our army in 1814, was glowing with the
recollection
of the one great name of America, and inwardly beating with the sanguine expectation of emulating, in some degree, its renown.
He had no clear
recollection
of the scenes of the previous day, and had it not been for the burning sensation at his neck, he might have thought that he had retired to rest after a calm evening.
These people fell ill at ease, having no longer the slightest
recollection
of Camille alive in their hearts.
The
recollection
of his crime caused him strange surprise; never could he have imagined himself capable of murder.
The poor mother understood that she alone preserved at the bottom of her heart, the living
recollection
of her dear child, and she wept, for it seemed to her that Camille had just died a second time.
All
recollection
of Camille had been dispelled.
Both had a perfect
recollection
of all the circumstances connected with the murder, and their eyes avowed what their lips denied.
In this manner, he carried the living and devouring
recollection
of his crime about with him everywhere.
Then, at the
recollection
of the past, they felt so fatigued and disgusted with themselves, that they experienced a huge desire for repose, for nothingness.
"For all that let me tell thee, brother Panza," said Don Quixote, "that there is no
recollection
which time does not put an end to, and no pain which death does not remove."
He came out to meet us with great gentleness, with his dress now torn and his face so disfigured and burned by the sun, that we hardly recognised him but that his clothes, though torn, convinced us, from the
recollection
we had of them, that he was the person we were looking for.
As she appeared to him in her dressing-gown, she drove all the beauties he had seen until then out of his recollection; speech failed him, his head turned, he was spell-bound, and in the end love-smitten, as you will see in the course of the story of my misfortune; and to inflame still further his passion, which he hid from me and revealed to Heaven alone, it so happened that one day he found a note of hers entreating me to demand her of her father in marriage, so delicate, so modest, and so tender, that on reading it he told me that in Luscinda alone were combined all the charms of beauty and understanding that were distributed among all the other women in the world.
Cardenio was then in his right mind, free from any attack of that madness which so frequently carried him away, and seeing them dressed in a fashion so unusual among the frequenters of those wilds, could not help showing some surprise, especially when he heard them speak of his case as if it were a well-known matter (for the curate's words gave him to understand as much) so he replied to them thus:"I see plainly, sirs, whoever you may be, that Heaven, whose care it is to succour the good, and even the wicked very often, here, in this remote spot, cut off from human intercourse, sends me, though I deserve it not, those who seek to draw me away from this to some better retreat, showing me by many and forcible arguments how unreasonably I act in leading the life I do; but as they know, that if I escape from this evil I shall fall into another still greater, perhaps they will set me down as a weak-minded man, or, what is worse, one devoid of reason; nor would it be any wonder, for I myself can perceive that the effect of the
recollection
of my misfortunes is so great and works so powerfully to my ruin, that in spite of myself I become at times like a stone, without feeling or consciousness; and I come to feel the truth of it when they tell me and show me proofs of the things I have done when the terrible fit overmasters me; and all I can do is bewail my lot in vain, and idly curse my destiny, and plead for my madness by telling how it was caused, to any that care to hear it; for no reasonable beings on learning the cause will wonder at the effects; and if they cannot help me at least they will not blame me, and the repugnance they feel at my wild ways will turn into pity for my woes.
Like the
recollection
of a dream, the quarrel he had had with Don Quixote came back to Cardenio's memory, and he described it to the others; but he was unable to say what the dispute was about.
"First of all, I would have you know, sirs, that my name is-" and here she stopped for a moment, for she forgot the name the curate had given her; but he came to her relief, seeing what her difficulty was, and said, "It is no wonder, senora, that your highness should be confused and embarrassed in telling the tale of your misfortunes; for such afflictions often have the effect of depriving the sufferers of memory, so that they do not even remember their own names, as is the case now with your ladyship, who has forgotten that she is called the Princess Micomicona, lawful heiress of the great kingdom of Micomicon; and with this cue your highness may now recall to your sorrowful
recollection
all you may wish to tell us."
"That is it exactly, according to my recollection," said the captive.
END OF PART I.PART IICHAPTER IOF THE INTERVIEW THE CURATE AND THE BARBER HAD WITH DON QUIXOTE ABOUT HIS MALADYCide Hamete Benengeli, in the Second Part of this history, and third sally of Don Quixote, says that the curate and the barber remained nearly a month without seeing him, lest they should recall or bring back to his
recollection
what had taken place.
Sancho glanced at him, and guessing his thoughts, said, "Don't be afraid of my going astray, senor, or saying anything that won't be pat to the purpose; I haven't forgotten the advice your worship gave me just now about talking much or little, well or ill.""I have no
recollection
of anything, Sancho," said Don Quixote; "say what thou wilt, only say it quickly."
If thou knowest thyself, it will follow thou wilt not puff thyself up like the frog that strove to make himself as large as the ox; if thou dost, the
recollection
of having kept pigs in thine own country will serve as the ugly feet for the wheel of thy folly."
'I took too much wine after dinner, and have a very vague
recollection
of walking about the streets, and smoking a cigar afterwards.
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