It seemed as though he gave way all at once; he was so languid that he could not control his thoughts; they would wander to her: they would bring back the scene,--not of his repulse and rejection the day before, but the looks, the actions of the day before that. 
It seemed as though he gave way all at once. He could not control his thoughts; they would wander to her; they would bring back the scene of the riot,