He felt he would start vapouring with devotion if this went on, so he bruptly took his leave with a cold expression on his face which dismayed her for she thought that it was due to distain for her artistic opinions.

and read the naked shield,[…] Of every dint a sword had beaten in it, / And every scratch a lance had made upon it

So an otherward movement akin to searching all things, “even the deep things of God,” is not too unrelated to another key aspect of the divine love: everyone who “abideth in charity abideth in God and God in him” (referring to 1 John 4:16).

Martin’s kisses were so hurried and moustachy and bristly—you couldn’t feel his lips, even—and unemotional.