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Kay's patterns were most ingenious, because they were the 'Ice Puzzles of Reason. In his eyes they were first-rate and of the greatest importance: this was because of the grain of glass still in his eye. He made many patterns forming words, but he never could find out the right way to place them for one particular word, a word he was most anxious to make.
The thought puzzles you; and well it may, for in it lies the whole mystery of our fate. It is on a frosty, bleak evening, when you are playing with Nat, that the letter reaches you which says Charlie is growing worse, and that you must come to your home. It makes a dreamy night for you fancying how Charlie will look, and if sickness has altered him much, and if he will not be well by Christmas.
"Here I am, dear boy," said North Wind's voice behind him. Diamond turned and saw her as he liked best to see her, standing beside him a tall, beautiful woman. "Where is the tiger?" he said. "But of course, you were the tiger. It puzzles me a little. I saw it such a long way off before me, and there you are behind me. It is odd, you know."
I must tell you. But you'll never believe." "Venters, women were always puzzles to me. But for all that, if this girl ain't a child, an' as innocent, I'm no fit person to think of virtue an' goodness in anybody. Are you goin' to be square with her?" "I am so help me God!" "I reckoned so. Mebbe my temper oughtn't led me to make sure. But, man, she's a woman in all but years.
"He's as clever a young chap as ever I run against," said the sergeant, who, like a good many more people, fervently admired those who thought the same as he. "But what puzzles me more and more every day is how such a chap as him should come to be a common soldier. He's a gentleman, every inch of him.
The dramatic lyric and monologue in which Browning set forth the varieties of passionate experience was an art-form of immense possibilities, which it was a work of genius to discover. To say that Browning, the inventor of this amazingly fine form, was indifferent to form has always seemed to me the extreme of stupidity. At the same time, its very newness puzzles many readers, even to-day.
As for me, all the time of our walking, and after we came home, and I had seen her put my flower into a pot of water, I was thinking to myself what puzzles women were. We had our walk daily. Out in the streets I felt more safe; I relaxed a little in my guardedness; and for one thing, there was no Heineccius.
It puzzles me now, that I remember all those young impressions so, because I took no heed of them at the time whatever; and yet they come upon me bright, when nothing else is evident in the gray fog of experience. I am like an old man gazing at the outside of his spectacles, and seeing, as he rubs the dust, the image of his grandson playing at bo-peep with him.
"Excuse me," he said, "your property! It is yours, the fees having been duly paid." "Well, our property, if you like," I replied, with a laugh; "all the same, I repeat you cannot remain smitten with civil death." "Bah! Bah! Political notions! But first explain to me how I come to be dead that puzzles me."
They evidently acted from a sort of religious enthusiasm, and were no ordinary thieves, but as evidently they did not hesitate to kill, I cannot understand why they should have added to their risks by sparing you." "No, that is what puzzles me," Mark agreed. "I was thinking it over while we were driving here. Now let me hear about the fight, Dick. How did you all come out of it?"
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