Actually the tears meant that a curious great relief had come to him.
Little as he had
actually seen of Madame Olenska, he was beginning to think that he could read her face, and if not her face, her voice; and both had betrayed annoyance, and even dismay, at Beaufort's sudden appearance.
For ourselves we can only thank her for pleasure and profit in the reading of her book, which has refreshed
actually the first and deepest springs of feeling, while it has charmed the literary sense.
As things actually were at that moment, what course was he to take with the unhappy woman who was waiting to hear from him at the Scotch inn?
He sat down to his writing on the spot; actually finished the letter; another minute would have dispatched it to the post--and, in that minute, the maddening indecision took possession of him once more.
For we are not here to understand, as perhaps some have, that an author
actually falls asleep while he is writing.
Returning from this digression to our main topic, namely, the criticism of "consciousness," we observe that Freud and his followers, though they have demonstrated beyond dispute the immense importance of "unconscious" desires in determining our actions and beliefs, have not attempted the task of telling us what an "unconscious" desire
actually is, and have thus invested their doctrine with an air of mystery and mythology which forms a large part of its popular attractiveness.
Rebecca said she had long had some notion of the partiality with which Sir Pitt honoured her (for he was in the habit of making his feelings known in a very frank and unreserved manner) but, not to mention private reasons with which she would not for the present trouble Miss Crawley, Sir Pitt's age, station, and habits were such as to render a marriage quite impossible; and could a woman with any feeling of self-respect and any decency listen to proposals at such a moment, when the funeral of the lover's deceased wife had not
actually taken place?
And vast sums of money had
actually been spent and were still being spent on this business, and utterly unproductively, and the whole business could obviously lead to nothing whatever.
Twice I
actually hired myself as an under-mate in a Greenland whaler, and acquitted myself to admiration.
It is part of the general irony of things that in life's crises a man's good qualities are often the ones that help him least, if indeed they do not
actually turn treacherously and fight against him.
A few days were allowed to elapse (as a precaution agreed to by both parties) before the jewel was
actually taken out of the bank.
