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He will puzzle us and perplex us as well as exasperate us. But if we cannot remember back to our own golden age, we must try as best we can to believe that even this will pass away. With special assistance from BENJAMIN CHARLES GRUENBERG, Ph.D.
'You know that you said once that life was too stirring in these days to permit travel to a man? 'I wish nothing was stirring, said Coningsby. 'I wish nothing to change. All that I wish is, that this fete should never end. 'Is it possible that you can be capricious? You perplex me very much. 'Am I capricious because I dislike change? 'But Astrachan?
"Although there are characters sufficient to awaken the attention and to diversify the scenes, yet they are not in sufficient number to perplex the memory or to confuse the incidents. Their spirit is well kept up till the very last, and they relieve one another with so much art that the reader will not find himself wearied even with the pedantic jargon of the old Baron of Bradwardine.
I did not for a moment pretend to myself that it was possible I could be deceived; there were movements and noises which I understood all about, cracklings of small branches in the frost, and little rolls of gravel on the path, such as have a very eerie sound sometimes, and perplex you with wonder as to who has done it, when there is no real mystery; but I assure you all these little movements of nature don't affect you one bit when there is something.
It would only disturb and perplex him, and if you take him abroad you will be able to guard him from every danger of this kind." "Yes," said Philippa eagerly, "that is what I feel. I shall try and explain it to Marion, but I am afraid it will not be easy to make her understand. If he sees the Major I am sure he will begin to wonder, and Marion and the child would puzzle him dreadfully.
What a very unbecoming expression, Jane." "Sorry, madam," said Jane and she and Flora sniggered uncontrollably. "You girls perplex me greatly," said Mrs. Barraclough. "You do not laugh in the least like ordinary servants." "How do ordinary servants laugh?" Jane asked. "Generally speaking, in a high note that echoes distressingly throughout the house, whereas you laugh like young ladies."
The more free-minded were conscious of its contradictions; they could not reconcile its earlier and later moral idealisms; they found in it as much to perplex as to help them. Some of them, therefore, disowned it altogether and because it was tied up in one bundle with religion, as they knew religion, they disowned religion at the same time.
There are so many things of which he is accustomed to say, "That is no concern of mine," that one more or less makes little difference to him; and when he does begin to perplex himself with these great matters, it is because the natural growth of his knowledge is turning his thoughts that way.
The news carried only one message to Pete's mind. It seemed to explain something which had begun to perplex him why Philip had not met him at the quay, and why Kate had not heard of his coming. Clearly Philip was at present at Ballure. He had not yet received the telegram addressed to Douglas. Pete turned back. Surely Kate had called somewhere. She would be at home by this time.
On the 7th of October, 1665, he writes: "Did business, though not much, at the office, because of the horrible crowd and lamentable moan of the poor seamen that lie starving in the streets for lack of money, which do trouble and perplex me to the heart; and more at noon, when we were to go through them, for then above a whole hundred of them followed us, some cursing, some swearing, and some praying to us."
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