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Updated: June 19, 2025
What was it that Manisty had found so irresistible, when all her own subtler arts had failed? Lucy was in some ways very simple, primitive even, as Manisty had called her. Eleanor knew that her type was no longer common in a modern America that sends all its girls to college, and ransacks the world for an experience.
Modern conditions and modern ideas, and in particular the intenser and subtler perceptions of modern life, press more and more heavily upon a marriage tie whose fashion comes from an earlier and less discriminating time.
Their movement had been captured by a group of eager, sophisticated, literary persons, who went much farther than Parliamentary Reform, and with the aid of claret and the subtler French intoxicants, "turned indignant" as another Ode puts it: From Kings who seek in Gothic night To hide the blaze of moral light. Fill high the animating glass And let the electric ruby pass.
His coming to my rooms at midnight, merely to tell me about his dinner, was in itself enough to excuse a suspicion which was certainly at variance with my knowledge of A. J. Raffles. "What did he say?" I inquired mechanically, divining some subtler explanation of this visit, and wondering what on earth it could be. "Say?" cried Raffles. "What did he not say!
This is a disposition not entirely favourable to painstaking and sure-footed reform. The idealist American is perhaps too ready to pay himself with fine words, which the subtler and shyer Englishman avoids and rather too readily sets down as insincere in others. Moreover, this tendency is quite consistent with the peculiar conservatism characteristic of America.
Beasts of prey, are they: in their "working" there is even plundering, in their "earning" there is even overreaching! Therefore shall they have it hard! Better beasts of prey shall they thus become, subtler, cleverer, MORE MAN-LIKE: for man is the best beast of prey. All the animals hath man already robbed of their virtues: that is why of all animals it hath been hardest for man.
And subtler question why should he make her unhappy? Why disturb her at all in her sweet sleep? 'Well, said Evan. 'To-morrow will do. No, take it to-night, for God's sake! he cried, as one who bursts the spell of an opiate. 'Go at once. The temptation had almost overcome him. Polly thought his proceedings queer. And what could the letter contain? A declaration, of course.
It was, so the subtler theologians declared, an act of affection as much as of pity; and the spell of the doctrine over the human heart lay in feeling that God wished to assimilate himself to man, rather than simply from above to declare him forgiven; so that the incarnation was in effect a rehabilitation of man, a redemption in itself, and a forgiveness.
As for his notions of literature, I simply accepted them with the feeling that any question of them would have been little better than blasphemy. For a long time he spoiled my taste for any other criticism; he made it seem pale, and poor, and weak; and he blunted my sense to subtler excellences than I found in him.
Any attempt to reach the weapon would surely result in an immediate counter offensive, with himself at a disadvantage. No, he must think of something subtler than that. On the seat beside him lay a packet of Gold Flake cigarettes, bought from a trolley on the platform. It gave him an idea. He put one in his mouth and began to slap his pockets as though searching for matches.
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