It seemed as though he wanted to read the article again.

A cold, shivering feeling was creeping from his scalp to his shoulders.

This article had been written anyhow.

The phrases were wildly extravagant; the unexpected epigrams and quaint collocations of words went beyond all bounds.

Yet notwithstanding this, he was struck by what he had read, for it had rudely awakened within him much that for months past he had not cared to think about.
He looked up.