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Death was present with them he saw it not. Strangers were making havoc with his solitude he was as oblivious of their presence as he had been unconscious of it before. His faculties and all his attention were absorbed by the thought which had filled his brain when the cogs of that subtle mechanism had slipped and his faculties paused inert. It was a cry of fear; not of mastery.
But as he read he became more and more disappointed. It happened to him as it always happens to those who turn to science not in order to play a part in it, nor to write, nor to dispute, nor to teach, but simply for an answer to an every-day question of life. Science answered thousands of different very subtle and ingenious questions touching criminal law, but not the one he was trying to solve.
And thus the Earl was, at this most important crisis, to depend upon the subtle and dangerous Deventer, and upon two inferior personages, the "fellow Junius" and a non-descript, whom Hohenlo characterized as a "long lean Englishman, with a little black beard." This meagre individual however seems to have been of somewhat doubtful nationality.
The two women looked each other in the eyes with subtle interchange of intelligence, such as belongs to their sex in virtue of its specialty. Talk without words is half their conversation, just as it is all the conversation of the lower animals. Only the dull senses of men are dead to it as to the music of the spheres.
They are the five organs of sense, the five organs of action, Manas or mind, regarded as a sixth and central sense, and also as the seat of will, and the five gross elements earth, water, light, air and ether. The Sâṅkhya distinguishes between the gross and the subtle body.
This subtle philosopher, not content, with Berkeley, to get rid of matter, not content, with Condillac, to get rid of spirit or mind, proceeds to a miracle greater than any his Maker has yet vouchsafed to reveal. He, being then alive and in the act of writing, gets rid of himself altogether. Nay, he confesses he cannot reason with any one who is stupid enough to think he has a self.
But when the serpent began to speak, and taught the most sublime truths those which cannot be demonstrated he found that Adam being made of red earth, was of too dull a nature to understand these subtle distinctions, but that Eve, on the contrary, being more tender and more sensitive, was easily impressed.
M. Fee, the naturalist, who has written so admirably about animals, and who understands, as only a Frenchman can understand, the delicate and subtle organization of a cat, frankly admits that the keynote of its character is independence.
"I am not blind to your subtle machinations by which I have become your accomplice." He laughed triumphantly in my face. "You are paid and well paid for it all. Why should you resent? Are you an idiot?" "I certainly refuse to be your tool!" I cried furiously. "You have thrown in your lot with me as one who ventures constantly in big things just as any man who operates on the Stock Exchange.
The moment his eyes fell upon the open desk, a thought flashed into his mind that set every nerve tingling. As though the old desk exerted some strange and subtle fascination, he drew near it; slowly, hesitatingly, almost on tiptoe, yet steadily. His heart beat like a trip-hammer, and his ears were straining to catch the slightest sound of any one's approach. The house was wonderfully quiet.
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