A Solemn Appeal - James White

true love, and by lust in any of its forms. Now,
precisely this difference obtains touching the
manners, carriage, expression, every thing, of his
conduct towards woman whose amativeness is pure
or perverted.
"The private sensualist may be further known
by his pallid, bloodless countenance, and hollow,
sunken, and half-ghastly eyes, the lids of which
will frequently be tinged with red; while if his
indulgence has been carried very far, he will have
black and blue semi-circles under his eyes, and also
look as if worn out, almost dead for want of sleep,
yet unable to get it, etc. He will also have a halfwild,
half-vacant stare, or half-lascivious, halffoolish
smile, especially when he sees a female. He
will also have a certain quickness, yet indecision,
of manner; will begin to do this thing, then stoop
and essay to do that, and then do what he first
intended; and in such utterly insignificant matters
as putting his hat here or there, etc. The same
incoherence will characterize his expressions, and
the same want of promptness mark all he does.
Little things will agitate and fluster him. Nor will
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