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The ruggedness of the disowned family of Smiths and the chicanery inherited from the gnarly-headed and subtle-minded old judge came to his rescue, and he determined not to fail without a fight. He shingled himself with deeds of trust and sales under fraudulent judgments or friendly liens, to delay if they did not avert calamity. Then he set himself at work to effect sales.
This roused the man and passionate lover, and the tiger in the man, in Edgar, and the wise and subtle-minded ecclesiastic quickly recognised that he had set himself against one of a will more powerful and dangerous than his own.
Now this boy nursed no secret presumptuous belief that he was fitted for the walks of the higher intellect; he was not having his impudent boy's fling at superiority over the superior, as here and there a subtle-minded vain juvenile will; nor was he a parrot repeating a line from some Lancastrian pamphlet.
Was he, Theos Alwyn, wiser than Democritus? ... or was this stately Chaldean monk, with the clear, pathetic eyes and tender smile, and the symbol of Christ on his breast, wiser than both? ... wiser in the wisdom of eternal things than any of the subtle-minded ancient Greek philosophers or modern imitators of their theories?
Verily, had I remained in that chair of honour and distress, long since would these historians and poets and subtle-minded lawyers have talked and rhymed me into madness, or into my grave." Concobar made answer "Dear foster-father, the high gods in their wisdom have fashioned us each man to illustrate some virtue.
"You're a mighty subtle-minded young person for your age," exclaimed St Aubyn, with a good-humoured laugh. "I confess that your theory is new to me; it had never occurred to me before. For one who has only been inside a theatre two or three times in his life you seem to have elaborated your conclusions pretty quickly.
The subtle-minded proprietor of this establishment should undoubtedly take out a patent on this very unique arrangement and issue licences throughout all Bonifacedom; there would be more "millions in it" than in anything Colonel Sellers ever dreamed of. And now, beyond Rannegunj, comes again the glorious kunkah road, after nearly three hundred miles of variable surface.
"Your excuses accuse you. You may care for him. I do not know; I do not care." She turned slowly and went back to her chair. Mechanically she took up the brush, and shook back her beautiful hair. "You mean you do not care for me," she said. "Oh, Paul! be careful." Paul stood looking at her. He was not a subtle-minded man at all.
"And yet," said an old priest, "his brother, who left us some years ago, and who had chosen me for his guide and teacher, was a particularly loveable and docile youth." "And his father," said Ameni, "was one of the most superior energetic, and withal subtle-minded of men." "Then he has derived his bad peculiarities from his mother?" "By no means. She is a timid, amiable, soft-hearted woman."
"And yet," said an old priest, "his brother, who left us some years ago, and who had chosen me for his guide and teacher, was a particularly loveable and docile youth." "And his father," said Ameni, was one of the most superior energetic, and withal subtle-minded of men." "Then he has derived his bad peculiarities from his mother?" "By no means. She is a timid, amiable, soft-hearted woman."
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