"To meet him, after so long a separation, here, and in these circumstances, was so unlooked-for and abrupt and event, and revived a tribe of such hateful impulses and agonizing recollections, that a total revolution seemed to have been reflected in my frame."
Arthur Mervyn; or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 [First Part]
First part published in 1799; second in 1800. Reading and transcribing text from Charles Brockden Brown,  <u>Three Gothic Novels</u>. New York: Library of America,1998.