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"You always speak in enigmas nowadays," said the girl, again standing near the fireplace, dainty in her dark skirt and cream silk jumper. "Why did you send me that extraordinary note?" "In your own interests," was his vague reply. "I became aware that your further presence in the house of Monsieur Le Pontois was well undesirable that's all."
Into this web of intrigue walked the late Vice-President of the United States, leisurely journeying through the Southwest in the summer of 1805. Aaron Burr is one of the enigmas of American politics. Something of the mystery and romance that shroud the evil-doings of certain Italian despots of the age of the Renaissance envelops him.
It is only in the silence and light of the desert that men may fully realize that the universe is one, that light is music and music is color and color is fragrance, undifferentiated in the eternal harmony of beauty. Pearl's eyes drank the desert, unconsciously seeking there in its haunting enigmas and unsolved mysteries an answer to the enigma of self.
"Clearly, and therefore not a notary." "Rose, dear, might it not be some person who has done us some wrong, and is perhaps penitent?" "Certainly; one of our tenants, or creditors, you mean; but then, the paper says 'a friend. Stay, it says a debtor. Why a debtor? Down with enigmas!"
There are enigmas in the annals of most peoples; riddles put by the Sphinx of the Past to the curious of the new generations. These questions do not greatly concern the scientific historian, who is busy with constitution-making, statistics, progress, degeneration, in short with human evolution.
Where the china comes from, where it goes to, why it is annually put up to auction when nobody ever thinks of bidding for it, how it comes to pass that it is always the same china, whether it would not have been cheaper, with the sea at hand, to have thrown it away, say in eighteen hundred and thirty, are standing enigmas.
Then as we stood in the crowded aisle of the car we spoke in enigmas. "'Did you hear what I said, Maude? I asked. "'Yes, said she, gazing softly out of the window, and a slight touch of red coming into her cheeks. 'Yes, I heard. "'And what is your reply? I whispered. "'So do I, she answered, with a sigh."
But the singular works of Latin and Anglo-Saxon literature allured him still further. They included the whole series of riddles by Adhelme, Tatwine and Eusebius, who were descendants of Symphosius, and especially the enigmas composed by Saint Boniface, in acrostic strophes whose solution could be found in the initial letters of the verses.
Why decline the invitation to visit the sealer that evening? Or was the Spaniard less hardened than the Jew, who refrained not from supping at the board of him whom the same night he meant to betray? What imported all those day-long enigmas and contradictions, except they were intended to mystify, preliminary to some stealthy blow?
He would retaliate quickly, and I alone would suffer." "But, my dear Gabrielle," he exclaimed, "you really speak in enigmas. Whatever can you fear from a man who is known to be a blackguard whom I could now, at this very moment, expose in such a manner that he would never dare to set foot in Perthshire again?" "Such a course would be most injudicious, I assure you.
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