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Tall, soldierly figures they seemed, and yet with an indefinable something in their looks a vagueness of gaze, a loose-lipped, too-ready smile, a vacancy of expression. Some there were who scowled sullenly enough, others who sat crouched apart, solitary souls, who, I learned, felt themselves outcast; others again crouched in corners haunted by the dread of a pursuing vengeance always at hand.
God is in it just in his seeming to be not in it that we may choose him in the darkness of the feeling, stretch out the hand to him when we cannot see him, verify him in the vagueness of the dream, call to him in the absence of impulse, obey him in the weakness of the will. Even in her prayers Hester could not get near him. It seemed as if his ear were turned away from her cry.
Her regret for the sorrow that she would cause was the regret of one far off, helpless to avert the pain, who has no relation to it except that of an observer. She said to herself, calmly, "Poor Uncle Robert." As she grew more rested, the vagueness of her regret sharpened a little. She realized with a pang how worried they would be before they began to be sorry; and worry is so hard to bear!
Not only are there few historical treatises but even historical allusions are rare and this curious vagueness is not peculiar to any age or district. It is as noticeable among the Dravidians of the south as among the speakers of Aryan languages in the north.
He has wrought that which proves his claim to a broader title than that of painter. Were it not for the vagueness which involves the appellation of historical painter, it might be that. Even were we obliged to confine our interest and study to the portraiture which he has executed, we might, in view of its remarkable character, designate it as historical.
So, you see, there's an opening waiting for me." As if to say, "The righteous are never forsaken." "I tell you all this as you're a friend of the family like," he added. Then, after an expanse of vagueness, he began hopefully, cheerfully, undauntedly: "Even now if I could get hold of a couple of thousand I could pull through handsome and there's plenty of security for it."
As we walked we had tackled the last question, 'What are we to do? and found very little to say on it. Beyond that vagueness and difficulty of every sort. At Norderney I should be fettered by my letter. If it seemed to have been opened and it ordered my return, I was limited to a week, or must risk suspicion by staying. Beyond Norderney lay Memmert. How to probe its secret?
That is something which we do not presume to state; it is something which we do not even believe. There was too much ignorance in Jean Valjean, even after his misfortune, to prevent much vagueness from still lingering there. At times he did not rightly know himself what he felt.
There was the head of the huge dragon, crested, fanged, clad in glittering scales, poised above the world and ready to strike. We were benumbed and terrified. There was nothing that we could do. The monstrous thing advanced, but even while we shuddered we could not make ourselves feel that it was real. It had the vagueness and the horrid pressure of a bad dream.
In that London on the other side of Thames, known to these girls with scarcely less of vagueness than to simple dwellers in country towns, the autumn-like air was foretaste of holiday; the martyrs of the Season and they who do the world's cleaner work knew that rest was near, spoke at breakfast of the shore and the mountain.
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