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"I'm sorry," said Theydon, chewing a cigar viciously as a means toward maintaining his self-control. "I'm sorry, but I must go." There was a slight pause. Forbes looked at his young friend with those earnest, deep-seeing eyes of his. "Is it a personal matter?" he went on. "Yes." Again there was a pause. Theydon was well aware that he risked a grave misunderstanding, but that could not be avoided.
It seemed to him, that she had at least two distinct natures that were at war with one another: the one greedy and pleasure-loving, careless and even reckless; the other deep-seeing and aspiring. But which of these two tendencies would experience probably foster? "I wonder what you like best, next to acidulated drops," he said at length, with one of his half-bantering smiles.
Strenuous faithful scrutiny, not of what is thought to be what in the red-tape regions, but of what really is what in the realms of Fact and Nature herself; deep-seeing, wise and courageous eyes, that could look through innumerable cobweb veils, and detect what fact or no-fact lies at heart of them, how invaluable these!
He pictured himself if he were idiot enough, when all this turmoil was ended, to pose as a suitor for Evelyn Forbes's hand explaining his financial position to the millionaire, and wilting under the scornful amusement in those earnest, deep-seeing eyes. Phew! He grew hot at the mere notion of such folly.
You think because a girl worships a man's ability that she's in love with him. I adore your ability, but I'd as soon fall in love with a lobster and be boiled with the lobster in a black pot. Such conceit men have!" He was not convinced. He had a deep-seeing eye, and he saw that she was boldly trying to divert his belief or suspicion. He respected her for it.
No, the chief requisite for a seat among the glorious company of the elect is a deep-seeing, far-reaching, sensitive comprehension; a capacity to see not only through a thing but over it and under it and beyond it; to see not only its derivation and ancestry, but its purport and import and influence and posterity; to detect the inner meaning and the double meaning, and to smile alone at its surface meaning.
In every case, as at the trial of Joseph Nadeau, the man who murdered the timber-merchant, the first prejudice of judge and jury had given way slowly before the deep-seeing mind, which had as rare a power of analysis as for generalisation, and reduced masses of evidence to phrases; and verdicts had been given against all personal prejudice to be followed outside the court by the old prejudice, the old look askance at the man called Beauty Steele.
We were both very young then, and we could have faced our troubles and grown up together. Now we're not the same. You let me grow up alone." Hawtrey shrugged his shoulders. "I haven't changed," he told her as she looked at him with deep-seeing eyes. He contented himself with that, and Agatha grew more resolute.
As we sat down to the table, it occurred to me that he liked to look at us, and that our faces were open books to him. When his deep-seeing eyes rested on me, I felt as if he were looking far ahead into the future for me, down the road I would have to travel. At nine o'clock Mr. Shimerda lighted one of our lanterns and put on his overcoat and fur collar.
But since then that mere "matter" which seemed to eclipse the soul has grown strangely radiant to deep-seeing eyes, and, whereas then one had to doubt everything, dupes of superficial disillusionment, now there is no old dream that has not the look of coming true, no hope too wild and strange and beautiful to be confidently entertained.
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