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Updated: May 9, 2025
"A private detective, a female detective, whom, the next time you come to Sant' Alessina, I'll introduce to you," said John. "What on earth do you mean?" said Lady Blanchemain. "The most amusing, the most adorable little detective unhung," said he. "People are all love and laughter whenever they look at her. She'll worm its inmost secrets from my sphinx's heart."
Did the heart of stone within him know its ancestry, track its hard, loveless descent from the Sphinx's children?
I got hither last Sunday, the day after I left London, less fatigued than I expected to have been; and now crawl about this place upon my three legs, but am kept in countenance by many of my fellow-crawlers; the last part of the Sphinx's riddle approaches, and I shall soon end, as I began, upon all fours.
It is true that there is a punishment inflicted on any person or persons attempting such wanton work a fine or the bastinado; yet neither fine nor bastinado would affect the "tripper" if he could only succeed in carving "'Arry" on the Sphinx's jaw. But he cannot, and herein is his own misery.
Japhet saluted, the ladder was run out and its end set upon the roughnesses in the rock that represented the hair of the sphinx's tail. The Mountaineer paused a moment with hands and face uplifted; evidently he was praying.
Wherever, all the wide world over, a nation shrinks from its oppressors, or a slave from his master, wherever a child flees from the face of a parent who knows neither justice nor mercy, or a wife goes mad under the secret tyranny of her inevitable fate, wherever pity and mercy and love veil their faces and wring their hands outside the threshold, there abide the Sphinx's children.
Bryant's face has been a Sphinx's riddle to our best painters; none have succeeded in rendering its severe simplicity, and clear, self-disciplined expression, until Durand tried it with a success which renders the picture interesting evermore as a tribute of friendship as well as a solution of a difficult problem.
Can I possibly love you more intensely than I do now surely no!" he exclaimed passionately. "And yet " "And yet?" "Ah! yes, I know it. Yes, it can grow until it is my life my very life." "Yes, Paul," she said, "your life" and her strange eyes narrowed again, the Sphinx's inscrutable look of mystery in their chameleon depths.
I saw the other day the Sphinx's painted face. She had painted her face in order to ogle Time. And he has spared no other painted face in all the world but hers. Delilah was younger than she, and Delilah is dust. Time hath loved nothing but this worthless painted face. I do not care that she is ugly, nor that she has painted her face, so that she only lure his secret from Time.
Sometimes in my attempts to steer homewards by fixing my eye on the Pole star, and seeking ambitiously for a north-west passage, instead of circumnavigating all the capes and headlands I had doubled in my outward voyage, I came suddenly upon such knotty problems of alleys, such enigmatical entries, and such sphinx's riddles of streets without thoroughfares, as must, I conceive, baffle the audacity of porters, and confound the intellects of hackney coachmen.
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