It was not his words that affected her-but a hundred little personal facts which every time she saw him burnt a little more deeply into her consciousness the Irreparableness of his personal ruin-physical and moral.
"Harvest"
Mrs. Humphry Ward
We learn to suffer as we learn to love, and it is not to-day, nor yet to-morrow, but in weeks and months to come, and by slow degrees, that John Norton will understand the Irreparableness of his loss.
"A Mere Accident"
George Moore