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'Nay, she laughed, 'a baby could unriddle it. She looked at him for a moment to enjoy her triumph of mystery. 'Husband mine, a pig thus stuffed is good eating for Cleves men. I have not kept a hostel for twelve years for envoys and secretaries without learning what each eats with pleasure.
This miracle of blue unblemished sky that had baffled all others since life began he, he would unriddle it! He was inclined to sneer at his friends who took these things for granted, and did not perceive the infamous insolubility of the whole scheme.
"There is magic of two kinds, the dark and evil, appertaining to witchcraft or necromancy; the pure and beneficent, which is but philosophy, applied to certain mysteries in Nature remote from the beaten tracks of science, but which deepened the wisdom of ancient sages, and can yet unriddle the myths of departed races."
Robin looked inquiringly into the man's face, but did not speak. "Some time or other, master," continued the ferryman, whose boat now touched the strand, "you'll maybe condescend to unriddle me how Dalton could have a daughter brought up by "
The boy's musings profited him nothing; the more he tried to unriddle the mystery the more perplexed he became, the more his head ached, and the worse he slept. His impatience to get to London grew hourly, and his captivity became almost unendurable. Hendon's arts all failed with the King he could not be comforted; but a couple of women who were chained near him succeeded better.
She braced herself up, and set herself valourously to unriddle the perplexities of a nocturne by Chopin. 'After all I have only to work on steadily, she told herself; 'there will come an end to my slavery. Presently she began to laugh to herself softly: 'I wonder whether old Pew has looked at my caricatures, she thought, 'and whether she'll treat me any worse on account of them?
So small a gentleman; and he feels, dismally though with heroism, that he has got the axis of the world on his shoulder. Poor Majesty! His eyes, proud as Jove's, are nothing like so perspicacious; a pair of the poorest eyes: and he has to scan with them, and unriddle under pain of death, such a waste of insoluble intricacies, troubles and world-perils as seldom was, even in Dreams.
She had the resolution to beat down and conquer the hopeless pain which would have torn her heart; and just because she had this resolution she was successful. "The Chevalier was too observant not to see that something had been occurring to disturb her; but, tenderly enough, he refrained from trying to unriddle a mystery which she thought herself bound to conceal from him.
Consider this opening from "The Riddle": "Ye bards, ye prophets, ye sages, Read to me, if ye can, That which hath been the riddle of ages, Read me the riddle of Man. Then came the bard with his lyre, And the sage with his pen and scroll, And the prophet with his eye of fire, To unriddle a human soul.
There was a want of air a dreadful silence, as if he had been buried alive no tinkling of water, or rustling of leaves, or roar of cataract. It was insupportable. He got up and tried to open the door, but the handle was a mystery which he could not unriddle. There was a window behind the dressing-table. He examined that, overturning and extinguishing the candle in the act. But that was nothing.
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