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The Baron bowed, and, as Madame Paradel moved away, he went towards the entrance of the gallery commanding a view of the hall and stairs. The figures of two advancing guests had caught his eye. In a tone at once enigmatic and perfectly correct, de Naarboveck accosted them: "You are among my guests, gentlemen."
The ground was level as a dancing floor. We followed the enigmatic glow emanation, it seemed to me from Norhala which was as a light for us to follow within the darkness. The high ribbon of sky had vanished seemed to be overcast, for I could see no stars. Within the darkness I began again to sense faint movement; soft stirring all about us.
Sophia sat before her embroidery frame, slowly pushing her needle in and out; Caroline read a novel with avidity and an occasional pause for chuckles, and when Rose at length dropped her hands on her knees and remained motionless, staring at the keys, Henrietta startled her aunts by saying firmly, 'I am just going to enjoy life. Rose raised her head and her enigmatic smile widened a little.
Other women, with their gross display of sex, disgusted him; but Kitty, with her strange, enigmatic eyes, appealed to him like well, like an antique statuette. That was how she appealed to him as an exquisite work of art. His mother had said that he found Thornby Place dull when she was ill, that he missed her, that that it was because she was not there that he had found the day so wearisome.
Ludowika, in her linen mask, was enigmatic, a figure of mystery. A complete silence continued between them; at times they ambled with his hand on her body; then the inequalities of the road forced them apart. The clouds dissolved, the sky was immaculate, green, with dawning stars like dim white flowers. A faint odour of the already mouldering year rose from the wet earth.
All his listeners knew that when he alluded to his foot-lathe in these enigmatic terms, the speaker meant to be impressive; and Creedle chimed in with, "Ah, young women do wax wanton in these days! Why couldn't she ha' bode with her father, and been faithful?" Poor Creedle was thinking of his old employer. "But this deceiving of folks is nothing unusual in matrimony," said Farmer Bawtree.
The hint of an invincible multitude behind that man’s back roused a sombre indignation in the breast of the Professor. He smiled no longer his enigmatic and mocking smile. The resisting power of numbers, the unattackable stolidity of a great multitude, was the haunting fear of his sinister loneliness.
There is a lofty flight of steps here also, and before them a structure which I know is both a gate and a symbol, imposing, yet in no manner resembling the great Buddhist gateway seen before. Astonishingly simple all the lines of it are: it has no carving, no colouring, no lettering upon it; yet it has a weird solemnity, an enigmatic beauty. It is a torii. 'Miya, observes Cha.
The Princess smiled, a slow, enigmatic smile, which might have meant anything, but which to Jeanne meant nothing at all. "My dear child," she said, "of course you are. The papers have said so, Society has believed them. If I were to go out and declare right and left that you had nothing but a beggarly twenty thousand pounds or so, I should not find a soul to believe me.
With that enigmatic, under the eyebrows glance fixed on me she laughed her deep contralto laugh without mirth but also without irony, and profoundly moving by the mere purity of the sound. “I suspect he was never so disgusted and appalled in his life. His self-command is the most admirable worldly thing I have ever seen.
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