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A light broke in on him, and he left her. He shut himself up in the dining-room with his light. He had pushed his breakfast aside, too preoccupied to eat it. "So that's it?" he said to himself. "That's it. Poor Nancy. That's what she's wanted all the time. What a fool I was never to have thought of it." He breathed with an immense relief. He had solved the enigma of Anne with all her "funniness."
I'm no lady's man I'm a simple sailor and I'm blessed if I can fathom it!" Mrs. Goring was silent for several minutes, gazing into his face with deepest sympathy. She was troubled too; but under the pain a glad resignation seemed to shine out. She said, very softly: "My dear friend, a woman's heart is a wonderful enigma. A girl's first love is far more wonderful.
I longed to go to Scotland Yard and tell my story. Yet how could I do so when, in a drawer in my room, there reposed that bundle of Bank of England notes, the price paid to me for being the accomplice of a mysterious crime? I could only seek a solution of the enigma alone and unaided by the authorities.
She was an enigma set in an enigma, and the two rowers looked at her and at the sunless sky, and bent to their oars gravely. A melancholy stole into their sensitive dark faces. This new padrona had already cast a shadow upon their buoyant temperaments. She noticed it and clasped her hands together in her lap. She was not accustomed yet to her new role in life. The boat stole on.
There is a sphinx in this gloomy odalisk of the frightful Sultan Everybody. None has solved its enigma. It is Nakedness masked. A terrible spectacle! Alas! in all that we have just recounted man is abominable, woman is touching. How many hapless ones have been driven to their fall! The abyss is the friend of dreams.
Suffice it to say here that this triple enigma is as comforting as wine and open as an English fireside; that this thing that bewilders the intellect utterly quiets the heart: but out of the desert, from the dry places and the dreadful suns, come the cruel children of the lonely God; the real Unitarians who with scimitar in hand have laid waste the world. For it is not well for God to be alone.
A historian confronted with some ambiguous politician, or an actor charged with a part, have but one pre-occupation; they must search all round and upon every side, and grope for some central conception which is to explain and justify the most extreme details; until that is found, the politician is an enigma, or perhaps a quack, and the part a tissue of fustian sentiment and big words; but once that is found, all enters into a plan, a human nature appears, the politician or the stage-king is understood from point to point, from end to end.
I have exhausted every possibility of obtaining further information. So, having written and posted my report to Sheldon, I have no more to do but to return to Ullerton. I take back with me nothing but the copy of the two entries in the register of burials. Who this Matthew Haygarth or this Mary Haygarth was, and how related to the Matthew, is an enigma not to be solved at Spotswold.
You will see him as surely as you beheld that portrait that it was the labour of a life to prevent you beholding. Venetia shook her head; 'And yet, she added musingly, 'my mother loves him. 'Her life proves it, said Cadurcis bitterly. 'I think it does, replied Venetia, sincerely. 'I pretend not to understand her heart, he answered; 'it is an enigma that I cannot solve.
He had seen a great poet prostituting his muse to journalism, humiliating Art, as woman was humiliated and prostituted in those shameless galleries without, and the provincial took a terrible lesson to heart. Money! That was the key to every enigma.
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