My mind was full of ideas connected with this incident.

I was not endowed with sufficient firmness to propose the cool and systematic observation of this man's deportment.

I felt as if the state of my mind could not but be evident to him; and experienced in myself all the confusion which this discovery was calculated to produce in him.

I would have willingly excused myself from meeting him; but that was impossible.
At breakfast, after the usual salutations, nothing was said.

For a time I scarcely lifted my eyes from the table.