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"What time do we get there?" he asked a passing brakeman. "Eleven-thirty-four." Paul's companion gave him a look of envy. "You speak English well," said he. Paul didn't like that, and took refuge behind one of those Slavonic indirections which are typical of the Russian mind an indirection hinting at mysterious purpose and power.
Now they were plunging into the naked and primordial conflict of man against woman, without reservations and without indirections and it left her with a vague fear of some impending helplessness and isolation. She had a sudden prompting to delay or evade that final step, to temporize and wait for some yet undefined reinforcements. "And you realize what it means?" he repeated.
"You don't mean," said Raven, in a voice of what used to be called "ominous calm," before we shook off the old catch-words and got indirections of our own, "you don't mean you've sent for her!" "It's no use," said Dick again, though with a changed implication, "you might as well take things as they are. Nan can't come up here slumming without an older woman. It isn't the thing.
In attaining this knowledge, I was compelled to resort to indirections by no means congenial to my nature, and which were really humiliating to me. My mistress who, as the reader has already seen, had begun to teach me was suddenly checked in her benevolent design, by the strong advice of her husband.
He was interested in the minister's indirections. "As for the events of last night" continued Alcatrante, stopping short, with a significant glance. "Well?" said Orme indifferently. "I trust that you did not think me absurd for sending that detective to you. That I did so was a result of poor Poritol's frantic insistence." "Indeed?" "My young friend was so afraid that you would be robbed."
And thus do we of wisdom and of reach, With windlaces and with assays of bias, By indirections, find directions out; So by my former lecture and advice, Shall you, my son. Hamlet. Single, I'll resolve you. Tempest. Observe his inclination in yourself. Hamlet. For ciphers, they are commonly in letters, but may be in words. Advancement of Learning.
He was, as I remember, unable to tell directly, what made him happy or unhappy, but by wonderful indirections he could tell.
What shall avenge them for their spretae injuria formae? What can repay the hapless performer, who has performed her very best, for learning by terrible, indisputable indirections that her cherished and boasted Cremona is but a very second fiddle?
"This decay of old families," said the Master, "is much greater than would appear on the surface of things. We have such a reluctance to part with them, that we are content to see them continued by any fiction, through any indirections, rather than to dispense with old names.
Readers of "Wake-Robin" will recognize a part of it in the matchless description of the bluebird which is found in the initial essay of that book. In 1860, in the "Leader," there also appeared a long essay by Mr. Burroughs, "On Indirections." This has the most unity and flow of thought of any thus far. It is so good I should like to quote it all. Here are the opening paragraphs:
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