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To a people who have once been proud and great, and great because they were proud, a change in the national spirit is the most terrible of all revolutions. I shall not live to behold the unravelling of the intricate plot which saddens and perplexes the awful drama of Providence now acting on the moral theatre of the world. Whether for thought or for action, I am at the end of my career.
"I thought he was asleep," muttered Eustachio. "That noodle to have been beforehand with me!" murmured Leonardo. "What perplexes me," continued Frederick, after enjoying the confusion of the pair for a few moments, "is that our masked friend here will have it that he is the man for the Dukedom, and offers to open the gates to me by a method of his own."
To mix the two is no aid, but a great hindrance, because it perplexes the mind between the very different operations of memory and invention. To prepare sentences and parts of sentences, which are to be introduced here and there, and the intervals between them to be filled up in the delivery, is the surest of all ways to produce constraint.
The newspapers now arrived, and France for a while engrossed the conversation. The famous Mirabeau had just made an oration with which all France was ringing. "That man's character," said the prince, after reading some vehement portions of his speech, "perplexes me more and more.
The abundance of food balances the prodigal fertility of the mother. If the Bruchus were always to adopt the broad bean for the establishment of her family, I could well understand the exuberant allowance of eggs to one pod; a rich foodstuff easily obtained evokes a large batch of eggs. But the case of the pea perplexes me.
I thought the vanity of being beloved made up the greatest part of the satisfaction; it was joy to see my lovers sigh about me, adore and praise me, and increase my pride by every look, by every word and action; and him I fancied best I favoured most, and he past for the happy fortune; him I have suffered too to kiss and press me, to tell me all his tale of love, and sigh, which I would listen to with pride and pleasure, permitted it, and smiled him kind returns; nay, by my life, then thought I loved him too, thought I could have been content to have passed my life at this gay rate, with this fond hoping lover, and thought no farther than of being great, having rich coaches, shewing equipage, to pass my hours in dressing, in going to the operas and the tower, make visits where I list, be seen at balls; and having still the vanity to think the men would gaze and languish where I came, and all the women envy me; I thought no farther on but thou, Philander, hast made me take new measures, I now can think of nothing but of thee, I loathe the sound of love from any other voice, and conversation makes my soul impatient, and does not only dull me into melancholy, but perplexes me out of all humour, out of all patient sufferance, and I am never so well pleased when from Philander, as when I am retired, and curse my character and figure in the world, because it permits me not to prevent being visited; one thought of thee is worth the world's enjoyment, I hate to dress, I hate to be agreeable to any eyes but thine; I hate the noise of equipage and crowds, and would be more content to live with thee in some lone shaded cottage, than be a queen, and hindered by that grandeur one moment's conversation with Philander: may'st thou despise and loathe me, a curse the greatest that I can invent, if this be any thing but real honest truth.
"Tell me," he continued musingly, as they walked on to meet Ferrers, "are you very partial to Lumley? what think you of his character? it is one that perplexes me; sometimes I think it has changed since we parted in Italy sometimes I think it has not changed, but ripened."
I am engaged in a little matter which, I must confess, perplexes me. I want your advice, perhaps your help." "I am quite ready," she answered, smiling. "It is a long time since you gave me anything to do." "You have heard of Guillot?" She reflected for a moment. "You mean the wonderful Frenchman," she asked, "the head of the criminal department of the Double-Four?"
All this had quite the flavor of foreign travel to Lynde, who began pondering on which hotel he should bestow his patronage a question that sometimes perplexes the tourist on arriving at a strange city. In Lynde's case the matter was considerably simplified by the circumstance that there was but a single aristocratic hotel in the place.
He found Drake upon the doorstep with a hand upon the knocker, and the two gentlemen exchanged greetings. 'I have just left Mallinson, said Fielding. Drake's hand fell from the knocker. 'Tell me! he said. 'Mallinson perplexes me in many ways. For instance, he shows me little good-will now 'Does that surprise you? Fielding interjected, with a laugh.
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