Of all the conditions to which the heart is subject suspense is one that most gnaws and cankers into the frame. One little month of that suspense, when it involves death, we are told by an eye witness in "Wakefield on the Punishment of Death," is sufficient to plough fixed lines and furrows in a convict of five and twenty,--sufficient, to dash the brown hair with grey, and to bleach the grey to white.


Eugene Aram: A Tale (ed. 1832)

Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quotes

Of all the conditions to which the heart is subject suspense is one that most gnaws and cankers into the frame. One little month of that suspense,...

Of all the conditions to which the heart is subject suspense is one that most gnaws and cankers into the frame. One little month of that suspense,...

Of all the conditions to which the heart is subject suspense is one that most gnaws and cankers into the frame. One little month of that suspense,...

Of all the conditions to which the heart is subject suspense is one that most gnaws and cankers into the frame. One little month of that suspense,...