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I glanced at that first, and found it filled in with an almost indecipherable scrawl. I made out the name and address right enough as "M. Pavloff, Charing Cross Hotel," and puzzled over a line in German, which I at length translated as "bearing a message from Johann." Now who on earth were Pavloff and Johann?
I was sure that this ring of flame whirled as well as floated in the air; the motion and the sound, alike indecipherable, were one and the same to me. I watched it, I say, for an hour: it may have been for two hours. By-and-by it came nearer, gradually very near.
In the same manner, but in accents fraught with an emotion indecipherable but intense the reply came: "Don't talk! This is too divine ... Just dance!"
There was no address, but the black seal at the end bore the impression of a foreign coat of arms, and a motto which to him was indecipherable. He held it up to the light, but the outside sheet had not been written on, and he gained no idea as to its contents. He leaned back in his chair for a moment, and looked at it.
And you, madam, going wearily through your steps, are the Joy of Life. Your hoarse voice, singing indecipherable words about dearie and honey and my jazz baby, your sagging shoulders layered with powder and jerking to the music, the rigid, lifeless grin of your cruelly painted lips these things and the torn, smeared papier-mache ballroom interior these are the Joy of Life.
Chief among these was sodden, blear-eyed, disreputable Sloper, whose trembling hand scrawled a hieroglyphic, supposed to represent his name, which began indeed with an S, but ended in a mysterious prolongation, and was further rendered indecipherable by a penitent tear which fell upon it from the point of his red, red nose!
"You mean," she said her breath fluttering "that mamma sold things she had no right to and never gave Aunt Bertha the money!" The restrained passion of her look had an odd effect upon her companion. Fanny first wavered under it, then laughed a laugh that was partly perplexity, partly something else, indecipherable. "Well, as I wasn't born then, I don't know.
And thirty-five years have been ironing Sing Lee out. He is like one of the yellow packages on the shelves. And there is a certain lettering across his face as indecipherable and strange as the dance of the black hieroglyphs on the yellow laundry paper. Something enthralls Sing Lee. It can be seen plainly now as he sits behind the counter. It can be seen, too, as he works during the day.
And in the lower left-hand corner, a date was written an old, old date: "Xmas, 1857." Next I satisfied myself that the doors had not been forced, and that every compartment was indeed empty. Then I looked back over my shoulder, to be puzzled by the baffling, indecipherable stare of Burke's tawny eyes.
The front of the grocer's shop badly needed repainting, and the name on the fascia, 'A. Smallman', was so faded as to be almost indecipherable. It had been Owen's intention to offer to do this work the cost to go against his account but the man appeared to be so harassed that Owen refrained from making the suggestion.
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