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Then he stopped, and looked with blank, unseeing eyes down the slanting fir avenue. "It is a mystery," he went on "the very mystery of mysteries; the Sphinx is nothing to it. A month ago we were strangers I neither knew nor cared that such a person as Elizabeth Templeton existed; and a week a little cycle of seven or eight nights and days has wrought this wondrous change. Am I the same man?
"What did the sphinx mean about ghosts in the court?" They walked out, gazing helplessly at the trampled grass about the fountain, at the melancholy walls, at the partly opened window of the room of mystery. "He knows something," Robinson mused. "Maybe you're right, Mr. Graham, but I wonder if I oughtn't to go farther and take you all."
The idols are immense, their faces are vague; the storms and the suns and the rains of the ages have cast over them a veil. The sphinx is understandable and a toy compared to these things, some of which have a stature of fifty feet, whose creation is veiled in absolute mystery the gods of a people for ever and for ever lost.
"Yes, he told you just what he had been ordered to tell you. Brett believed I was coming he was expecting me. I promised to go because he held some bills of Tony's Tony had borrowed from him far more than he could pay. And Brett bargained with me that he would give them up if I would go to supper with him on the Sphinx." The whole story came tumbling out in quick, vivid sentences.
“Thief of a sphinx!” Of course the things which had belonged to the Halbrane’s boat and the Paracuta’s were the only articles that adorned the mighty sides of the lonely mystic form. Never had any ship reached such a latitude of the Antarctic Sea. Hearne and his accomplices, Captain Len Guy and his companions, were the first who had trodden this point of the southern continent.
*The Riddle of the Sphinx.* It is not theoretical but practical interests which start the work of the investigation activity in the child. The threat to the conditions of his existence through the actual or expected arrival of a new child, the fear of the loss in care and love which is connected with this event, cause the child to become thoughtful and sagacious.
Is it long since thou didst become the Sphinx? Or dost thou also wish to say something? Yes; and thou also art a Sphinx. And thy eyes those colourless but profound eyes speak also.... And their speeches are equally dumb and enigmatic. Alas! December, 1878.
As she finished reading her account, she exclaimed in the passionate tones of the deepest conviction, "There, doctor! Have n't I found the true story of this strange visitor? Have n't I solved the riddle of the Sphinx? Who can this man be but the boy of that story?
As to giving myself up to anything less than the shaping of a man's destiny if I thought I could do it I would abhor myself. . . ." She spoke with authority in her deep fascinating, unemotional voice. Renouard meditated, gloomy, as if over some sinister riddle of a beautiful sphinx met on the wild road of his life. "Yes. Your father was right. You are one of these aristocrats . . ."
And the mist, which, as the night advances, thickens in the valleys, hesitates to mount to the great daunting face of the Sphinx; and covers it with the merest and most transparent gauze; and, like everything else here to-night, this gauze, too, is rose-colored.
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