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Updated: May 27, 2025
The doctor sat with one leg crossed, smoking a cigarette, his expression sardonic, sphinxlike. To Rainey, a little bewildered at being dragged into the affair, and annoyed at it, Captain Simms' words rang true enough. He did not know what to say, whether to speak at all. Lund supplied the gap. "If that ain't the truth, you lie well, Simms," he said. "But I don't trust ye.
"I guess it won't get a chance to." She turned to the professor, who was a good listener respectful and deferential, with little to say for himself. She rocked gently to and fro as she talked. Her husband sat unbendingly silent, in a sphinxlike attitude that gave no outward indication of his mental uneasiness. He was thinking gloomily that it would be just his luck to meet Mrs.
I felt he had something to say to me, and I waited. He moved his head slowly towards the bookcase. "Those books," he asked, "are yours?" "Yes," I answered. "Your name then is Guy Ducaine?" "Yes." "Did you ever know your father?" It was a singular question. I looked at him quickly. His face was sphinxlike. "No. Why do you ask? Did you?" He ignored me absolutely for several moments.
My few material needs are amply provided for. Later you will understand the significance of a second pension." Abruptly terminating our conversation, the saint became gravely motionless. A sphinxlike air enveloped him. At first his eyes sparkled, as if observing something of interest, then grew dull. I felt abashed at his pauciloquy; he had not yet told me how I could meet Father's friend.
Or was it a mere physical illusion had he any dreams? "The heart of another is a dark forest" to all but the one who loves. One morning, he held up a letter. "Ah, ha! Paul Rosek went to see our house. 'A pretty dove's nest! he calls it." The memory of the Pole's sphinxlike, sweetish face, and eyes that seemed to know so many secrets, always affected Gyp unpleasantly.
Perhaps, if children came, she might still escape into the thoughts and actions that give life its true value. A faint, sphinxlike smile touched his face. "No use worryin'. That doesn't help any. I'll go as easy as I can. We'll meet in two hours at James's office." He turned and left the room.
Good and evil is the challenging riddle which life places sphinxlike before every intelligence. Attempting no solution, most men pay forfeit with their lives, penalty now even as in the days of Thebes. Here and there, a towering lonely figure never cries defeat. "You speak with conviction, sir." "I have long exercised an honest introspection, the exquisitely painful approach to wisdom.
Stevenson's cold and distant manner, but they were not aware of what it took her own family a long time to discover that this apparent detachment and sphinxlike immobility covered a real and childlike shyness; yet it was never apathy, but the stillness of a frightened wild creature that has never been tamed. Though she said so little, she never failed to create an impression.
There are, besides, some that are merely statues, colossal figures that have never held a corpse in their interiors; these all wear a strange, scarcely perceptible smile; in their huge sphinxlike headgear they reach nearly to the ceiling and their set stare passes high above our heads. And there are others that are not larger than ourselves, some even quite little, with the stature of gnomes.
You admire that calm and imperturbable dignity, that sphinxlike and yet vigilant poise of bearing which has made Judge Mayne so notable an ornament of the bench? It is purely feline: "He caught it from his cats, suh: he caught every God-blessed bit of it from his cats!" As one may perceive, we have delicious neighbors!
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