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If, therefore, it loots all the treasures of bygone wit and wisdom, and struts about in this richest of rich garments, it only proves its sinister consciousness of its own vulgarity in so doing; for it does not don this garb for warmth, but merely in order to mystify its surroundings.
I sat at his feet, so to speak, and listened on and on. The next morning broke very brightly, yet there were clouds enough on high to mystify its clear shining. There had been a thunder-shower on the day before yesterday: our former rains had sent on an advance-guard. We had finished our service before the day grew hot, in the prime and cool of the morning.
'You do mystify me "somebody else"! he replied gallantly. 'And that is the story, I suppose? 'That's the story, repeated Miss Sinnet with some little triumph. 'Now, let me see; it was on Saturday last yes, Saturday evening; a wonderful sunset; Bewley Heath. 'Oh yes; my daughter's favourite walk. 'And your daughter's age now? 'She's nearly sixteen; Alice, you know.
“Now, David, you are trying to mystify me. I believe there’s a streak of perversity in you after all.” “Of course there is; and here comes Mandy to say that ‘suppa’s gittin’ cole.’
Had the abduction been, after all, concerted not by him but by Mr. Thomasson and his confederates? The setting down near Pomeroy's gate, the reception at his house, the rough, hasty suit paid to her were these all parts of a drama cunningly arranged to mystify her? And was he innocent? Was he still her lover, true, faithful, almost her husband? If she could think so!
The comte de Provence, who had been told that I was not expected, began to laugh when he perceived me, and taking the first opportunity of approaching me, he said, "Ah, madame! so you too can mystify your friends, I see! Have a care; the sight of charms like yours is sufficient to strike terror into any adversaries, without having recourse to any expedient to heighten their effect."
It was in vain that she originated twenty different reports to mystify the world; and even ten pounds spent in Masses for the eternal repose of Father Con Doran only increased the laughter this unfortunate affair gave rise to. As for us, we exchanged into the line, and foreign service took us out of the road of duns, debts, and devilment, and we soon reformed, and eschewed such low company."
Having said this, Ibn Ezra, in his wonted mysterious manner, stops short, refusing to say more and preferring to mystify the reader by adding the tantalizing phrase, "The intelligent will understand." He means apparently to indicate that an eternal matter was endowed with form.
After all, what right have I to mystify him who honors me with his affection?" Then, being pressed with questions by Josephine, she related to her all that had passed between Edouard and her, word for word. "Poor Camille!" sighed Josephine the just. "Oh, dear, yes! poor Camille! who has the power to make us all miserable, and who does it, and will go on doing it until he is happy himself."
These are the essentials of Jesus' revelation the fundamental forces in his own life. His every teaching, his every act, comes back to them. I believe also that all efforts to mystify the minds of men and women by later theories about him are contrary to his own expressed teaching, and in exact degree that they would seek to substitute other things for these fundamentals.
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