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If not to do it, were to spill the cause and to lose the bargain, it was more than probable that they would be spilt and lost. But the ambassador was no OEdipus although a man of delicate perceptions and brilliant intellect and he turned imploringly to a wise counsellor for aid against the tormentor who chose to be so stony-faced and enigmatical.
And it found itself in constant combination with two monarchs, despotic at heart and of enigmatical or indifferent religious convictions, who yet reigned over peoples, largely influenced by enthusiasm for freedom.
There, Madeline bade me a flippant and musical good night, and I entered my room, alone. Within, the contrast between the door and the brown walls was still more effectively drawn. In this, and in other places where it had fallen, it had been collected and tacked up again to the ceiling in cloth bags which presented a graceful and drooping, though at first sight, rather enigmatical appearance.
"You are not here as revolutionists, criminals, or conspirators, because you are loyal to government and law." The words were big and puzzling to the untutored ears that heard them, but a grim, enigmatical smile was soon playing over many a rugged face.
Card's smile was enigmatical; his eyes were sad. His imagination pictured to him Mrs. Marteen as she had sat before him in her self-contained stateliness and announced with indifferent calm that the Vandyke had been but a ruse to gain his private ear. Gard rose, approached the picture, and for an instant laid his fingers upon its darkened frame.
Then, with a faint, devout quiver in his voice and the air of a priest initiating another into the delightful but perturbing atmosphere of a sanctuary, he went on repeating the praises of Botticelli's art; his women with long, sensual, yet candid faces, supple bearing, and rounded forms showing from under light drapery; his young men, his angels of doubtful sex, blending stateliness of muscle with infinite delicacy of outline; next the mouths he painted, fleshy, fruit-like mouths, at times suggesting irony, at others pain, and often so enigmatical with their sinuous curves that one knew not whether the words they left unuttered were words of purity or filth; then, too, the eyes which he bestowed on his figures, eyes of languor and passion, of carnal or mystical rapture, their joy at times so instinct with grief as they peer into the nihility of human things that no eyes in the world could be more impenetrable.
In camp Long Pine Jim and his crew received chaffing with balefully red glares. Next day they stood at the top by a good margin, and always after were competitors to be feared. Injin Charley, silent and enigmatical as ever, had constructed a log shack near a little creek over in the hardwood. There he attended diligently to the business of trapping.
Perhaps three minutes passed, then the door to the library opened and a young woman came out. Fitzgerald stood up. Yes, it was she. "So you have come?" There was welcome neither in her tone nor face, nor was there the suggestion of any other sentiment. "Yes. I am not sure that I gave you my name, Miss Killigrew." He was secretly confused over this enigmatical reception. She nodded.
We have introduced mathematics also, and he has advanced a new hypothesis about comets and their long tails. . . Our chief botanical occupation this summer is the careful observation of all our plants, even the commonest, and the explanation of whatever is unusual or enigmatical in their structure. We have already cracked several such nuts, but many remain to be opened.
On the face of the other man was an enigmatical smile, which was more bitter than a sneer. "You are all right?" said Stafford; "but I am afraid you were very much frightened!" The girl turned to him. "You!" she said, recognising him. "Did you stop them?" "Yes; it was easy: they had had almost enough," he said. While they were speaking, the two elder men drew apart as if instinctively.
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