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Exactly opposite to me, in that chair now pushed carelessly back, she had sat, so close that my hand could have touched hers at any moment, so close that I had been able to wonder more than ever before at the marvellous whiteness of her skin, the perfection of her small, finely-shaped features, the strange sphinxlike expression of her face, always suggestive of some great self-restraint, mysterious, and subtly stimulating.
This time he avoided looking at her. "You must come over and speak to Maggie," he begged. "Perhaps Mr. Immelan will spare you for a few moments." Immelan bowed, sphinxlike but coldly furious. The two strolled away together. When the next set was over, Naida, who had rejoined her companion, had disappeared. On one of their vacated chairs was seated the quiet-looking stranger in grey.
At this thought the young man began to speculate with some intensity upon the personality indicated thus far to his mind only by the name of Doctor Renshaw. The very silence of the Hall, which impressed him now not so much by its beauty as by its solidity and height, invested the presiding genius of the place with something of sphinxlike mystery.
Rheinholdt, and the other leads into your reception room, into which you passed after the assault. I shall now be glad if you will permit me to examine the gardens outside for a few minutes, alone with my assistant, if you please." For almost a quarter of an hour, Quest and Lenora disappeared. They all looked eagerly at the criminologist on his return, but his face was sphinxlike.
Paddy, who conducted us, introduced us first to the engineer in charge of this part of the work, a man named Shelton, who had knocked about the world a great deal, but had acquired a taciturnity that was Sphinxlike.
Henriette had been unwontedly reserved for a whole week, a fact which was beginning to get sadly on my nerves when she broke an almost Sphinxlike silence with the extraordinary remark: "Bunny, I am sorry, but I don't see any other way out of it. You must get married." To say that I was shocked by the observation is putting it mildly.
I shall take him back; it is best for his future. What do you think of his playing?" In spite of herself, for she did not like expanding to this sphinxlike little man, Gyp murmured: "Oh, simply wonderful, of course!" He nodded, and then rather suddenly said, with a peculiar little smile: "May I introduce him? Gustav Miss Winton!" Gyp turned.
It was really an able plea, lacking perhaps those subtilities of detail with which a Zorra man would have trimmed it, but good enough for a man who labored under the disadvantages which accrue to birth south of the Tweed and Tyne. But it did not stir the elder's sphinxlike calm.
There is something almost terrifying to me about this quiet collectedness this Pierpont Morgan touch of sphinxlike aloofness from either malice or mercy.
But I do love you, Rimrock, in spite of myself, and won't you come in for a moment?" They stood at the entrance and the Sphinxlike doorman opened the door to let them pass. Outside it was cold and from the portals there came forth a breath of warm air, but for the first time Rimrock held back. "No, thank you very much," he said, bowing formally, and turned quickly back towards the car.
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