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Mary Virginia often talked as the alchemists used to write cryptically, abstrusely, as if to hide the golden truth from all but the initiate. "Come and shake hands with Mr. Flint, Kerry," said she to the setter. "I want you to help make him understand things it's high time he should know. Nobody can do that better than a good dog can."
"The morning you left for the Allahabad MELA," Prafulla told me, "Master dropped heavily on the davenport. "'Yogananda is gone! he cried. 'Yogananda is gone! He added cryptically, 'I shall have to tell him some other way. He sat then for hours in silence." My days were filled with lectures, classes, interviews, and reunions with old friends.
He only grinned cryptically. After a bit he hailed the attendant waiter, who because he plainly suffered from fallen arches had already been rechristened by Scandalous as Battling Insteps. "Say, Battling," he said, "take away the emu; he's still the undefeated champion of the ages. Tidy him up a little and serve him to the next guy that feels like he needs exercise more'n he does nourishment.
"Yes!" she sighed, and shivered and stiffened her back as if there had fallen on her something magnificent and onerous. "I am twice as responsible for Richard as most mothers are for their sons." She would have left it cryptically at that if she had not seen that Ellen would have disliked her as a mystificator.
And I'm just curious enough to want to know how you did it." "By abstaining," returned Average Jones cryptically, "from the best wine that ever came out of the Cosmic Club cellar." From his inner sanctum, Average Jones stared obliquely out upon the whirl of Fifth Avenue, warming itself under a late March sun.
"If he is playing with us, then he is playing with us," his father somewhat cryptically remarked; "and he must know the details of the game." This playing with grown-ups does not curtail the play in which children engage with their contemporaries. There are games that are distinctly "children's games."
"My dear fellow, what the la-diddly-um do you mean?" "Why, he seems to be a bit of an actor to do things because he wants to appear in a favourable light." "I say, that's doocid ungenerous of you," said Chappy. "And, by jove, if he likes to imagine himself very noble and heroic, and tries to act accordingly, very fine of him." "Very," endorsed Radley, cryptically. "I've a great liking for him."
But I had done all the private investigating I cared to. And I told her so. She only smiled cryptically. So far as I know, Mrs.
To which the novelist answered, cryptically, "If you have not the eyes to see the reason, it will matter little whether you know it or not. If you do see the reason, and, still, produce a portrait that pleases your sitter, then you will have paid the price; you will receive your reward; and" the speaker's tone grew sad and bitter "you will be what I am."
Then, as Ibrahim mounted and marshaled his party in front of him, he forgot manners as well as the liberal payment. "Mashallah!" "Now I go to make Armenians pay for this! Let the shapkali,* too, avoid me! Ya Ali, ya Mahoma, Alahu!" * Shapkali hatted man-foreigner. "Let's hope they haven't a spark of honesty!" said Monty cryptically, watching them canter away. "Why on earth ?"
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