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Words big in the mouth serve their turn when there is no way of satisfying the intelligence. To be her master, however, one must not begin by writhing as her slave. The attempt to read an inscrutable woman allows her to dominate us too commandingly. So the lordly mind takes her in a hard grasp, cracks the shell, and drawing forth the kernel, says, "This was all the puzzle."
He dwelt upon the immense confidence reposed in him, and the terrible temptation it would be to some men, and how they ought to thank their stars that they were never thrown in the way of such a temptation, of which he really thought nothing at all nothing! until the farmer's countenance was lightened of its air of oppression, for a puzzle was dissolved in his brain.
"I don't mind them things much if they will only let me have something to eat." Sim was a puzzle to me. He was all stomach. Blows were nothing; food was everything. "Where have you been since yesterday?" I asked. "Laying round, looking for something to eat." "Sim, we must build a raft," I added. "What for?" he inquired, opening his eyes, as he always did when his muddy brain seized an idea.
I knew that I had made an impression that was not detrimental to me in his eyes, and thought that I began to see through the puzzle. The succeeding few moments convinced me that I was not mistaken. "Whose was the suggestion that determined your visit to Russia?" he continued. "The suggestion came to me a long time ago more than a year," I responded.
This seemed to puzzle him worse than ever, and I don't believe he has up to this day found out, just how the thing was done. He certainly had not at the time we left Danville. After this there was no effort made to have the count overrun, and the use of that hole in the floor was abandoned.
"What stupid people the Germans are! Why can't they have one little word for everything, as we have? T, h, e, the. Any child can learn that. What do they mean by chopping up their language into little bits, like the pieces in a puzzle? Why, even the French are more reasonable though they're bad enough, goodness knows, with their hes and shes feminine tables, and masculine beds.
'Then it's for Reformatories, mayhap. 'They would hardly be a cure. 'You 're in search of a cure? 'It would be a blessed discovery. 'But what's to become of Society? 'It's a puzzle to the cleverest. 'All through History, my dear Mr. Carling, we see that. 'Establishments must have their sacrifices. Beware of interfering: eh? 'By degrees, we may hope . . . .
The only clear idea in the heads of the robed and wigged wiseacres was, that the case, Napier versus Napier, was a puzzle which no man could read or solve.
Allied help to Russia is like a jig-saw puzzle, a mystery even to the man who devised it. A straight-forward recognition of the Omsk Government would have been an honest hand for honest work, but where would Allied diplomacy have come in? Diplomacy is only necessary when there are ulterior objects than mere plain, unambiguous assistance to a helpless friend. What are these hidden objects?
Nothing, except perhaps that Camp of Muhlberg or Radowitz, where we once were. Done, this one, not at the King's expense alone, but at other people's chiefly: that is an unexpected feature, welcome if true; and, except for Sir Jonas, would not have helped to explain the puzzle for us, as it did in the then Berlin circles.
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