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I could feel a little of it even then, when there was only the merest chance of my going back to England and getting back towards our old position on the rim of the mirror. The deviousness, the wayward passion, even the sempiternal abuses of the land were already beginning to take the aspect of something like quaint impotence. It was charm that, now I was on the road away, was becoming apparent.
That is, he has no personal animus in his deviousness unless someone has directly offended him. He will haul a load of small articles unguarded for many versts and deliver every piece safely, in spite of his own great hunger, because he is in charge of the shipment.
But the deviousness and aberration of our human faculties frequently amount to something considerably more serious than this. I will put a case. I will suppose myself and another human being together, in some spot secure from the intrusion of spectators. A musket is conveniently at hand. It is already loaded.
Yasmini guided them to the outskirts of the town in a line as nearly straight as the congenital deviousness of Sialpore's ancient architects allowed. There was not a street but turned a dozen times to the mile. At one point she bade Dick stop, and begged Tess to let Tom Tripe take her home, promising to see her again within the hour.
The shaded lights left her loveliness unimpaired; and yet, as she gazed at the mirror, the worm gnawing at the root of her happiness was not her husband's precarious situation, nor his deviousness, nor even his mere existence, but the one thought: 'Oh! That I were young again! 'Mother, whatever do you think? cried Millicent, running in eagerly in advance of Ethel at ten o'clock.
All situations solved themselves; or, if they showed signs of not going to, one adopted the gentle methods that helped them to get solved. Early in life she had discovered that objects which cannot be removed or climbed over can be walked round. A little deviousness, and the thing was done.
And if there was only just time for Rosey to prepare to take the boat, it was due to the deviousness of the way.
He had been living with Malays so long and so close that the extreme deliberation and deviousness of their mental proceedings had ceased to irritate him much. To-night, perhaps, he was less prone to impatience than ever. He was disposed, if not to listen to Babalatchi, then to let him talk.
The northern party A narrow escape, and a great discovery Esquimaux again, and a joyful surprise. It is interesting to meditate, sometimes, on the deviousness of the paths by which men are led in earthly affairs even when the starting-point and the object of pursuit are the same. The two parties which left the Dolphin had for their object the procuring of fresh food.
It is interesting to meditate, sometimes, on the deviousness of the paths by which men are led in earthly affairs even when the starting-point and object of pursuit are the same. The two parties which left the Dolphin had for their object the procuring of fresh food.
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