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So we know as little as ever of the purely hypothetical process by which a riddle, or popular poetical saying, remains intelligible in a language, while the mot d'enigme, becoming unintelligible, turns into a proper name say, Cronos. Yet the belief in this process as a vera causa is essential to our author's method. Here Mr.
Now, will you do me the favour, the service, to look them over, and try whether you can make out le mot d'enigme? I shall not disturb you."
He started, "Granville! set my mind at ease by one word, tell me the mot d'enigme of this sudden friendship." "Not what you suppose," said he steadily, yet colouring deeply. "The fact is, that Beltravers and I were school-fellows; a generous little fellow he was as ever was born; he got me out of a sad scrape once at his own expense, and I can never forget it.
Her pretended friends, who maintained their reputations at the height of their rank and their positions, often produced in her presence the seductive idea of the lover; they cast into her soul certain ardent talk of love, the "mot d'enigme" which life propounds to woman, the grand passion, as Madame de Stael called it, preaching by example.
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