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When Wordsworth speaks of "the clouds that gather round the setting sun," we assume that he has seen every shadow of colour and every curve of form; but when the Hebrew poet says "He hath made the clouds his chariot"; we do not always realise that he was full of indescribable emotions aroused by indescribable sights. We vaguely assume that the very sky was plainer in primitive times.
"This universe, material and mental, is nothing but the spectacle of the thoughts of God." You might have known it would be like that. The universe, going on inside God, as your thoughts go on inside you; the universe, so close to God that nothing could be closer. The meaning got plainer and plainer. There was Spinoza. Spinoza said, "There is no substance but God, nor can any other be conceived."
"For what," explained the colonel, when the propriety of using the name for his addition was questioned, when no college was there nor any prospect of a college for years to come "what is plainer to the prophetic eye than that time will bring to this magnificent city an institution of learning worthy of our hopes?
But now all this he cunningly shades under the following allegory: That the Nauplians in Argia learned the art of pruning their vines by observing that when an ass had browsed upon one of them, it thrived the better and bore fairer fruit. But Herodotus holding the very same hieroglyph, speaks much plainer and almost in terminis.
"Let me in," said Rose. "Sorry I disturbed your nap, but I had to come back for my ulster." Dolly was standing just at the other side of the door, she knew, but there was no sound of drawing the bolt. Only a long silence and then a sob. "What's the matter?" Rose demanded. "Let me in." "You can't come in!" said Dolly, and panic couldn't have spoken plainer than in her voice. "Oh, go away!
"True, and may it be so in the present instance. It is not unknown to me that Mr. Lyon once held a place in your regard I will go farther, and say in your affections." Fanny started, and moved a step from him; but he continued "The question I wish to ask is, does there yet remain in your heart a single point that gives back a reflection of his image? In plainer words, is he any thing to you?"
I guess he was never placed in just such a fix as mine!" For, slowly, all of Dick's iron-clad resolution to "stick it out" was wearing away. It was becoming plainer to him, every day, that he could not stay in the Army if he were always to live in Coventry as far as his brother officers were concerned. "I wonder what the fellows will do at the meeting next Monday night?"
He felt an inward revulsion; he looked askance at Vera, and now that by declaring her love for him she had cast off the aloofness which so adds to a woman's charm, she seemed to him, as it were, shorter, plainer, more ordinary. "What's the meaning of it?" he thought with horror. "But I . . . do I love her or not? That's the question!"
Then, as he fell thinking of his talk with Dora and Lomax, he wished impatiently that he had been even plainer with Daddy about Lucy Purcell. With regard to her he felt himself caught in a tangled mesh of obligation. He must, somehow, return her the service she had done him. And then all the world would think he was making up to her and wanted to marry her.
"Mademoiselle, you demonstrate to me that life has yet a value to you." "I find no fire," she said, as the flush fell away. "The Baron?" "I do not affect him." "You will conquer your prejudice in Vienna." "I do not comprehend you, Monsieur; you speak in riddles, which I do not like." "I will speak plainer. But first let me ask you for the diamond." "The diamond? It is yours?
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