And I was most pleased to hear.

It must be great to give the brute the rein now and again, and healthy, too.

Great for us who have wandered from the natural and softened to sickly ripeness.

Just to shake off artificiality and rage up and down! and yet, the inmost mentor, serene and passionless, viewing all and saying: 'This is my other self.
Behold! I, who am now powerless, am the power behind and ruleth still! This other self, mine ancient, violent, elder self, rages blindly as the beast, but 'tis I, sitting apart, who discern the merit of the cause and bid him rage or bid him cease!' Oh, to be a man!" Corliss could not help a humoring smile, which put Frona upon defence at once.
"Tell me, Vance, how did it feel?
Have I not described it rightly?
Were the symptoms yours?
Did you not hold aloof and watch yourself play the brute ?" He remembered the momentary daze which came when he stunned the man with his fist, and nodded.
"And pride ?" she demanded, inexorably.

"Or shame ?" "A--a little of both, and more of the first than the second," he confessed.