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And so, many undesirable and inferior kinds of mental trends come forth and hold sway. The basis of their appearance is the lack of will power and of control over these various trends which were previously more or less completely held under control but which are now impulsively forcing their way to the surface and being unravelled.
"Waite!" he leaned forward, startled by the possibility "not not " "Yes," she burst in, holding out her hands, clasping the locket, "and this was my father's; where did you get it?" He took the trinket from her, turning it over in his fingers. Little by little the threads of mystery were being unravelled, yet, even now, he could not see very far.
He must not fear the companionship of the crank. He had better recognize that he is one. What is a crank? The dictionary is somewhat vague as to the meaning. I find that the verb is unravelled as "bend, wind, turn, twist, wind in and out, crankle, crinkle." The last two appeal to me strongly. How I have crankled and crinkled over wrongs and horrors which I have discovered on my little path!
It is now only necessary that we should collect together the few loose threads of our story which require to be tied lest the pieces should become unravelled in the wear. Of our hero, Lord Popenjoy, it need only be said that when we last heard of him he was a very healthy and rather mischievous boy of five years old, who tyrannised over his two little sisters, the Lady Mary and the Lady Sarah.
If the secret is ever to be unravelled at all, by Methuselah's aid, now is, without doubt, the proper moment to unravel it." Muriel put out her hand and stroked the bird gently. "Pretty Poll," she said, soothingly, in a sympathetic voice. "Pretty Poll! Poor Poll! Was he ill! Was he suffering?"
There was an English artist with us, who made a sketch of the fall; but he said a prettier thing about it than his picture." "What was that?" inquired Miss Ruth. "He called it Penelope's web, because it is always being unravelled and reknitted." "That artist mistook his profession." "Folks often do," said Lynde. "I know painters who ought to be poets, and poets who ought to be bricklayers."
With sagacity, without passion, with unaffected sincerity, he had unravelled the complicated web of Netherland politics, and, with clear vision, had penetrated the designs of the mighty enemy whom England and Holland had to encounter in mortal combat.
In a hurry, he simultaneously sprung to his feet, and flung the window-frame open, then casting a glance outside, from within the glass casement, he realised that it was not the reflection of the sun, but that of the snow, which had fallen throughout the night to the depth of over a foot, and that the heavens were still covered as if with twisted cotton and unravelled floss.
But if I had not been set upon the right trail, I say honestly that I doubt whether I should have unravelled it, especially as the snow is rapidly going, and by this afternoon the footprints will have disappeared." "Well, as a matter of form, we will take down your statement, Mr. Henderson, and then take those of the constables." "Young Mr. Wyatt is outside, if you would like to hear him, sir."
Whatever reasons I may have to repent of my misplaced confidence, I will make no secret of that which now compels me to change my opinion of you; you will find them amply detailed in this paper," at the same time putting into my hand the letter from my father to Mr Somerville. In a moment the mystery was unravelled, and conviction flashed in my face like the priming of a musket.
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