from becoming a vast gigantic machine, with a dead heart and a paralyzed soul.
120 CONCEALED FOR THIRTY YEARS.  from becoming a vast gigantic machine, with a dead heart and a paralyzed soul.  Thus it was, I had no keen desire to see Mistress Clemency ; for, with doubtless a touch of intoler ance and bigotry, I had dashed into the extreme notion that she was one of the clever women of the world, who had stepped out of her rightful sphere, and, therefore, lost her loveliest charms.