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He would have done all that Crinkett had suggested to him when he and Crinkett were walking along the dike. Crinkett had said that on receiving twenty thousand pounds he would have gone back to Australia, and would have taken a wife with him! That offer had been quite intelligible, and if carried out would have put an end to all trouble. But he had mismanaged that interview.
Cleopatra's account of Antony's condition renders a piece of news which we have just received somewhat more intelligible." "We?" replied Iras. "Who was your companion?" "Dion," answered Archibius; but when he was about to describe the incidents of the preceding night, she interrupted him with the question whether Barine had consented to leave the city.
"Morel, it is for the bill in the hands of Louise's master! We are all lost!" said Madeleine, with a sorrowful voice. "This is the warrant," said Malicorne, taking from his dirty pocket-book a stamped writ. After having mumbled over in the usual way a part of this document, in a voice hardly intelligible, he pronounced distinctly the last words, unfortunately too well understood by the artisan.
I do not profess to know what is meant by "intelligible"; it seems to mean "familiar to imagination." Nothing is less "intelligible," in any other sense, than the connection between an act of will and its fulfilment.
By its very nature it is intelligible at all times to all persons in the locality, if only because music is not an intellectual art; it deals in rhythms, it does not deal in ideas. But beyond the fact of its intelligibility, music possesses different attractions for different people.
From qualities for instance of childlike simplicity, of shy profundity, or of inspired self-communion, the world does and must turn away its face towards grosser, bolder, more determined, or more intelligible expressions of character and intellect; and not otherwise in literature, nor at all less in literature, than it does in the realities of life.
"That, then, explains things. At all events, we have in it an intelligible THEORY of things." Whereafter, he expounded to us at length, and with no sparing of details, the reason why a monk should have been Nilushka's father rather than either the merchant or the young "survey student."
There was no need of parchments and seals, of attestations, explanations, and professions. The bargain was understood between them, and Mr Slope gave the bishop his hand upon it. The bishop understood the little extra squeeze, and an intelligible gleam of assent twinkled in his eye.
It is too intelligible it could not fail to be understood no no no! O Dios! if it should reach other hands! those of his enemies! It names to-night true, it does not tell the place, but the time is mentioned the place would be easily discovered. Oh! that I knew where to communicate with him! But I know not, and he will come. Ay de mi! it cannot be prevented now. I must hope no enemy has got it.
The rest of us were like women compared to Nick." He paused. Muriel's eyes had not flinched from his. She heard his explanation as one not vitally concerned. "Have I made myself intelligible?" he asked, as she did not speak. "Do you mean I was to be shot if things went wrong?" she returned, in her deep, quiet voice. He nodded. "It must have been that.
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