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"Not one; but is there not a wide difference between the love of making mysteries, and a taste for finding them out?" "Do you not find both in children, and up into old age?" "In children, one usually finds both: but I think the love of mystery-making and surprises goes off as people grow wiser.
If I find it is yours, you shall have my manuscript to read and destroy. Believe me," he broke out with something of his old warmth, "I detest such mystery-making from the bottom of my soul, but it is not I who have made this mystery. This is the most painful hour of my life, and you make it worse by not treating me like a hound.
"Why it is the whole duty of a father, but it is the mystery-making which is the worst evil. If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence." To return, however, to Roughborough.
Her maid remarked to me that the deceased was given to mystery-making, and very distrustful; she no doubt hid the banknotes in her bed. Let the bedstead be carefully examined and taken to pieces, the mattresses unsewn the money will be found." "You are sure of that?" "I am sure of the relative honesty of my rascals; they never play any tricks on me.
If I find it is yours, you shall have my manuscript to read and destroy. Believe me, he broke out with something of his old warmth, 'I detest such mystery-making from the bottom of my soul; but it is not I who have made this mystery. This is the most painful hour of my life, and you make it worse by not treating me like a hound.
"I don't think I said." "Mystery-making!" The big man's gruffness had a suggestion of amusement in it. "But of course it would be simple enough to find out from town." "See here, Mr. Vanney, Miss Van Arsdale is still something of an invalid " "After all these years," interposed the other, in the tone of one who ruminates upon a marvel.
I sought him out last night and told him the whole story. Have you anything against it? I always felt uneasy at keeping it from him as I did, because I had led him to expect I should tell him all I discovered, and my silence looked like mystery-making. Now that it is to be cleared up finally, and there is no question of shielding you, I wanted him to know everything.
'Two persons? she said with a note of enquiry. 'Your uncle is the other. I sought him out last night and told him the whole story. Have you anything against it? I always felt uneasy at keeping it from him as I did, because I had led him to expect I should tell him all I discovered, and my silence looked like mystery-making.
Men were disappointed because "Lavengro" was "not an autobiography." They said that the adventures did not bear "the impress of truth." They suggested that the anti-Papistry was "added and interpolated to suit the occasion of the recent Papal aggression." They laughed at its mystery-making. They said that it gave "a false dream in the place of reality."
That is what makes them an ideal prey for the quack physician. They will believe anything so long as it is strange and complicated; a straightforward doctor is not listened to; they want that mystery-making "priest-physician" concerning whom a French writer I forget his name has wisely discoursed. I once recommended a young woman who was bleeding at the nose to try the homely remedy of a cold key.
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