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By his manner of speech, and the ease of his authority, he and his family might have belonged to separate ranks of life. Yet I seemed to detect method in their obedience. The veriest fumbler went about his work with a concentrated gravity of bearing, as if he fulfilled a remoter purpose, and understood it while he tied his knots into "grannies," and generally mismanaged the job in hand.
I think it is you who are going there, and why are you putting me to inconvenience merely that you may the more easily find your way?" Should I answer so, he would think and possibly say, "There are strange people in Cambridge, remoter from human kind than any known elsewhere." Every one would feel astonishment at the man who declined to bear his little portion of a neighbor's burden.
Those were the remoter and nearer relatives of the nomarch, the local aristocracy. Ramses looked at them with attention. "Aha!" said he. "It seemed to me that these gentlemen lacked something, and now I see what it is, they have no wigs." "Because thou, most worthy prince, dost not wear wigs, our young men have vowed not to wear them," replied the nomarch.
The characteristic feature of all such seasons of devout vicarious leisure is a more or less rigid tabu on all activity that is of human use. It may be remarked, parenthetically, that secular holidays are of the same origin, by slightly remoter derivation.
Hundreds of gold-hunters, in small and unseaworthy boats, as soon as they could do so, left Nome to prospect the remoter coast and possible creeks, many of whom perished in the sudden and fierce storms which occur in the Bering Sea, and wives and mothers wondered why no letters came from Alaska.
He dramatized the scene at breakfast when he should describe it in plain, matter-of-fact terms, and hold every one spellbound, as he or she leaned forward over the table to listen, while he related the fact with studied unconcern for his own part in it, but with a serious regard for the integrity of the fact itself, which he had no wish to exaggerate as to its immediate meaning or remoter implications.
The strain of a long uncertainty, and the late feverish weeks had distempered the fine blood of the girl, and her acts and words were becoming remoter exponents of her character. She bent her head in a blind doze that gave her strength to rise. As swiftly as she could she went in the track of her sister. That morning, Robert had likewise received a letter.
The dark wainscoting behind him, and the vastness of the room, in the remoter parts of which the light which fell strongly upon his face and figure expended itself with hardly any effect, exhibited him with the forcible and strange relief of a finely painted Dutch portrait. For some time I saw nothing but him.
Against the blackness of the pines the windows of the old loft above the express-office stood out staringly bright; and through their curtainless panes, the loungers below could see the forms of those who were even then deciding the fate of Tennessee. And above all this, etched on the dark firmament, rose the Sierra, remote and passionless, crowned with remoter passionless stars.
There you can see their cities and towns to this day. And if you let your mind slip back to still remoter eras, you are lost in a maze of antiquities older than the traditions of Egypt.
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