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"There was a lot of talk; the reporters were after me already; there was the trouble and all about the Mexican business; and I got scared right out, and I guess I lost my head. You weren't there, you see, and that was my temptation." I did not know how long he might thus beat about the bush with dreadful hintings, and I was already beside myself with terror. What had he done?
I could recall but little of it, little more than the mere hintings of what he said. He cared very little for metaphysics. But he thought that as a man grows he observes certain facts about his own mind, about memory, for example. These he had set down from time to time. As for making any methodical history, he did not undertake it."
For me, I silently recalled the mysterious shadows I had seen creeping on board the Pequod during the dim Nantucket dawn, as well as the enigmatical hintings of the unaccountable Elijah. Meantime, Ahab, out of hearing of his officers, having sided the furthest to windward, was still ranging ahead of the other boats; a circumstance bespeaking how potent a crew was pulling him.
Metem bowed politely, but in a fashion which showed that he put no faith in her words. "Again I ask your meaning, merchant," she said, "for your dark hintings are scarcely to be borne." The Phoenician looked at her; there was a ring of truth in her voice.
"There was a lot of talk, the reporters were after me already; there was the trouble, and all about the Mexican business; and I got scared right out, and I guess I lost my head. You weren't there, you see, and that was my temptation." I did not know how long he might thus beat about the bush with dreadful hintings, and I was already beside myself with terror. What had he done?
There is something very loathsome about the spying, and secretiveness, the jokes and unclean hintings which, in the majority of schools, make such a friendship appear a thing to be ashamed rather than proud of, and often in the end actually render it shameful.
Mina's stock of discretion was threatened with complete consumption. From open denunciations she turned to mysterious hintings. "I could bring him to reason if I liked," she said. "What, make him fall in love with you?" cried Duplay, with a surprise not very complimentary. "Oh no," she laughed; "better than that by a great deal."
The mutual hintings, negotiatings, express interviews, bargainings and secret-instructions, dimly traceable in Voltaire's LETTERS, had been going on perhaps since May last, time of those ACADEMY failures, of those Broglio Despatches from the Donau Countries, "No staying here, your Majesty!" and I think it was, in fact, about the time when Broglio blew up like gunpowder and tumbled home on the winds, that Voltaire set out on his mission.
And when you shall observe him to be much heated with the subtle drug and your hintings, you shall say to him, "Lo, next this door is the door of the Lady Katharine. Go see if perchance she have not even now this yeoman with her." Viridus nodded his head once up and down; Lascelles clapped his hands twice for joy at this contrivance.
The suggestion of poisoning was a welcome one. It was preferable to the sinister hintings of the brown man. But even if it had been poisoned it was a very singular coincidence, unless indeed the Burmese had himself poisoned it He tried to think whether it could have been possible for his visitor to have administered poison undetected.
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