The young girl excited emotions which he had thought could never be revived.

The ashes gave forth a lingering flame at the first murmurings of that voice.

Who has ever felt himself return to youth and purity after growing cold and numb with age and soiled with impurity?
Suddenly, Wilfrid loved as he had never loved; he loved secretly, with faith, with fear, with inward madness.

His life was stirred to the very source of his being at the mere thought of seeing Seraphita.

As he listened to her he was transported into unknown worlds; he was mute before her, she magnetized him.