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All this composed a drama in five acts very clearly, particularly for so analytical an observer as Grimaud.

My colleague of the many noughts did not, however, take an unfair advantage of his superiority. He told me that he was working at analytical geometry. The phrase had a strange effect upon me. I ruminated silently to this purpose: there was a higher geometry, which you learnt more particularly with combinations of letters in which x and y played a prominent part.

We are not engaged in what may be called "nice" conversation, we are philosophizing. If my discussions seem to you to be sometimes too analytical for a woman, remember what I told you in my last letter. From the time I was first able to reason, I made up my mind to investigate and ascertain which of the two sexes was the more favored.

Men, like Durward and myself he resembles me in many ways, although he is stronger than I am, and doesn't care what people think of him are too analytical and self-critical to give much of their blood to anybody or to make their blood of very much value if they did. I only meant that I would do my best. Later in the morning the firing began again pretty close.

A prince stolen! Evidently a Bourbon! The scion of one of the oldest families in Europe kidnapped. Here was a mystery indeed worthy of his analytical brain. His mind began to move like lightning. "Stop!" he said, "how do you know this?" The secretary handed him a telegram. It was from the Prefect of Police of Paris. It read: "The Prince of Wurttemberg stolen. Probably forwarded to London.

A man's logical and analytical adjustments are of little consequence, compared to his primary relations with Nature and truth: and people have sense enough to find it out in the long ran; they know what "logic" is worth. In that miserable delusion referred to above, the reverend Aztecs and Fijians argued rightly enough from their premises, no doubt, for many men can do this.

I wrote in a very early diary: "I wish Arthur would write something striking on the Established Church, as he could express better than any one living how much its influence for good in the future will depend on the spirit in which it is worked." His mind was more critical than constructive; and those of his religious writings which I have read have been purely analytical.

Three months have passed; I am now enjoying my life like a refined vizir, and no longer like a simple troubadour of Provence, transported of a sudden into the Caliph's harem. I have recovered my analytical composure. As you may well imagine I set to work, after the second day, to learn Turkish, an easy task after my studies in Sanscrit.

She had stumbled forward and caught at his arm and clung to it, as though it were her last earthly pillar of support. Her huge plaited ropes of hair had fallen down, thick brown ropes longer than his own arms, and he, breathing hard, had sat back and watched them as she wept. But Blake was neither analytical nor introspective. How it came about he never quite knew.

And thanks for letting them catch the horse. I'm afraid I've put you to a lot of bother." "Not at all," said Tom, "not at all." He was studying her face. Its expression troubled and moved him strangely, for he was not an analytical person. "I didn't mean to tell you those things when I began," he apologized, "but you wanted to hear them." "I wanted to hear them," repeated Victoria.