=6.= It had the acrid tang of broken trust
=7.= The sweetish, tepid taste of feigning love!
A projection of the subjective into the objective.
=14.= Clear as a friend’s heart, ‘twas, and seeming cool—
The same as above.
=22.= And lo, the tang of that wide insolence
=23.= Of sky and plain was acrid in the draught!
Note again the attitude of nature, as Hugh sees it, in its “wide
insolence.”
=25.= How like fine sentiment the mirrored sky etc.
The cruelty of sentimentalism. Note on this page the steps by
which the sense of thirst is induced in the reader and the
corresponding disappointment increased; “dry as strewn bones
bleaching to a desert sky,” “grateful ooze,” “sucked the mud,”
“sweetish, tepid taste,” “taunted thirst,” “damp spots,” then
the description of the pool and the “famished horses.” Is not
the reader as thirsty as Hugh and nearly as keenly disappointed?