A pause; it endured horribly.

“There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss …”

“I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human hea…”

“Involuntarily I glanced seaward and distinguished nothing except a single green…”

“When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, our snow, began to …”