"Mechanicalness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... received her husband with a pallid smile. In that smile he suspected the work of time. She had continued thinking of her son every hour, but with a resignation that was drying her tears and permitting her to continue the deliberate mechanicalness of existence. Furthermore, she wished to remove the impression of the angry words, inspired by grief,—the remembrance of that scene of rebellion in which she had arisen like a wrathful accuser against the father. And Ferragut for some days believed ...
— Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) - A Novel • Vicente Blasco Ibanez |
