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Pound; before I had seen the comic tragedy enacted by Squire Crumple; above all, before the man who saw through the top of his hat had uttered his enigmas about the Professor. There is something innately repugnant to man in the word "professor." It makes the flesh creep almost as does the thought of the toad or snake.
It was a time when puns, and charades, and enigmas, and anagrams, and monograms, and ciphers, and puzzles, were not good for sport and child's play merely; when they had need to be close; when they had need to be solvable, at least, only to those who should solve them.
He was invited to contribute any really good enigmas, charades, or conundrums that he might recollect; and she had the pleasure of seeing him most intently at work with his recollections; and at the same time, as she could perceive, most earnestly careful that nothing ungallant, nothing that did not breathe a compliment to the sex should pass his lips.
"You are aware, Monsieur," replied Boleslas, "of the fact that you just addressed me in a tone which is not the one which I have a right to expect from you.... When one charges one's self with a certain business, it is at least necessary to introduce a little form." "And I, Monsieur," replied Chapron, "would be very much obliged to you if, when you address me, you would not do so in enigmas.
I failed, of course, in my desire not from lack of facilities offered, but partly from lack of knowledge to estimate critically what I saw, and from lack of time. My experiences, however, though they left my mind full of enigmas, were wondrous. I asked to inspect one of the best schools in New York.
He spoke of this for a long time, then about other topics, and finally wound up by saying: "There are many such enigmas in this world that must remain unsolved for the present, and with which men are yet forced to deal in a practical manner, even at the risk of making mistakes. So that we just have to choose a sensible middle course. We must be neither too superficial nor too profound.
"Sure more than of my eternal life! But I wish to know what you mean." "But you won't be told. just a suspicion that came to me; something that was told to me the other day; a conjecture so vague that it would be useless to dwell upon it." "I am not good at guessing enigmas," said Octave, in a dry tone. "We will speak of this again to-morrow."
Fortunately for the general peace of society, however, most passers-by are not gifted with the sight to see the involuntary display." "You speak in enigmas," said Harland, impatiently "And I'm not good at guessing them." Santoris regarded him fixedly. His eyes were luminous and compassionate. "The simplest truths are to you 'enigmas," he said, regretfully "A pity it is so!
The lady raised her veil, revealing a face which recalled the sublime goddesses of ancient times; a lofty brow, beautiful lips, cheeks in whose dimples Cupids were playing, and dark eyes with the deep, indescribable expression that seems to conceal all the enigmas of feeling, alluring charm and repellent sadness in every feature a wonderful play of sorrow and sunshine which in the sky is called a rainbow, in the human face passion.
"It is just so with me," said Uncle Titus, "and I cannot get through an evening with any satisfaction unless that bright boy has been in to see me, full of impatience to tell me what he has been about during the day, and eager to hear the enigmas I have to give him. It is a perfect pleasure to have such a young fellow about one." "My dear Titus, you are growing younger every day.
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