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"I know he was; and that is why I am in such haste to understand " "Oh! how impatient you are, Porthos." "When I do not comprehend, I am terrible." "Well, you will understand. Aramis wrote to you at Pierrefonds, did he not?" "Yes." "And he told you to come before the equinox." "That is true." "Well! that is it," said D'Artagnan, hoping that this reason would mystify Porthos.
Then, with the trowel in his pocket, the plate of cold turbot in one hand and the milk jug in the other, he made for the door. He had it open when another idea evidently occurred to him. "I'll trouble you for the pistol, Petrie." I handed him the pistol without a word. "Don't assume that I want to mystify you," he added, "but the presence of any one else might jeopardize my plan.
God forbid," he answered, "but tell me why are other people afraid of you? You mystify me." "Because I am different so different from them!" "I'm quite sure of that," he replied, "else I should never have come to love you within an hour of meeting you." She did not smile; she did not even look up at him, but sat gazing at nothing, with countenance as solemn and imperturbable as that of a Sphinx.
But why should she have assumed that Lanyard had not disposed of the trust about his person? Not impossibly the thing had been found by the first officer of the Assyrian, searching by order of the captain as Lanyard assumed he had. But, if Mr. Warde had found it, he had not reported his find when telephoning to Captain Osborne; or else the latter had gone to great lengths to mystify Lanyard.
The worthy Boturini was puzzled by those which he had collected, and writes, "the songs are difficult to explain, because they mystify historical facts with constant allegorizing," and Boturini's literary executor, Don Mariano Echevarria y Veitia, who paid especial attention to the poetic fragments he had received, says frankly: "The fact is, that as to the songs I have not found a person who can fully translate them, because there are many words in them whose signification is absolutely unknown to-day, and moreover which do not appear in the vocabularies of Molina or others."
They harangue, and mystify, and magnify, but they will not act; and this incomparable design, which, in England, would join the whole power of the nation in one unanimous effort, languishes among the philosophists and prognosticators of Germany, finds no favour in the eyes of its formal courts, and threatens to be lost in the smoke of a tobacco-saturated and slumber-loving people.
One would expect the coin to fall; but, on the contrary, the harder you blow the tighter will it stick, even if the reel be pointed downwards. Only when you stop blowing will it fall to the floor. This is a very interesting experiment, and will mystify onlookers who do not understand the reason for the apparent paradox, which is this.
I worked in the post-office for a year once handed out mail and I got to know just exactly what most of the mothers in town wanted. I could please them with a new magazine and mystify them with a circular or a business letter. But if I wanted to light them up until they took the shadows out of the corners as they went out, I would give them a letter from a son, way off somewhere, making good.
The English are now suppressing our reports on the successes of our submarines and our statements as to submarine losses; they dare not make public the amount of tonnage sunk, but mystify the public with shipping statistics which have given rise to general annoyance in the English Press itself.
"You tempt one to enquire the length of the reign of a satisfactory enigma," cried Lady Engleton. "Precisely the length of her ability to mystify me," he replied. "Your future wife ought to be given a hint." "Oh! a wife, in no case, could hold me: the mere fact that it was my duty to adore her, would be chilling.
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