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For instance, nothing has ever happened here, among the Boccaneras, but I've found him at the bottom of it, tangling or untangling the threads according to necessities with which he alone is acquainted." Then, in the unquenchable fever for confiding things which was now consuming him, the secretary related how Monsignor Nani had most certainly brought on Benedetta's divorce case.
Uncle Cassius' letter was read over again carefully by Mr. Robbins. Kit carried it out to the grape arbor, where he and Hiram were untangling and training some vagrant vines to travel in the way they should go, up over the trellis work. There was a round table here made of birchwood that just fitted nicely into the octagonal arbor, encircled by birch seats.
It was not only that they had come into the room without making any noise, or that there had been that burst of music, or that the light had brightened. It was rather because the cook went on untangling the kite, just as if nothing had happened. He said to himself, "She does not know they are here. She does not know I have seen anything."
And still the man in the moon winked down, and smiled his merry scout smile upon Scout Harris. On that night, in the back yard of Billy Gilson's tire repair shop, Keekie Joe, the sentinel of Barrel Alley, sat upon a pile of old Ford radiators, untangling a complicated mass of fishing-line. He was trying to follow a selected strand through the various fastnesses of the labyrinth.
She showed no interest and, after a critical pause, he continued: "They robbed the booth of some costumer whom the Sadducees had made rich and captured a maid whom they held until she had taught them how to use henna and kohl. So I had a garrison of swearing girls until they wearied of the fatigue of stepping mincingly and untangling their garments.
Martha smiled, readily untangling Sally's thoughts, and said, "I mustn't complain, Sally. Nothing has come to pass that I had not prepared my mind to meet. We will only have to wait a little longer than you and Mark." "No you won't!" Sally exclaimed. "I'll make Mark wait, too! And everything must be set right somebody must do something! Where's Betsy Lavender?"
Another young man offers to successive maidens a skein of tangled silk to wind. The first says, "I can't;" the second tries, and gives up; the third makes a quick job of it with her scissors; the fourth spends hours in patiently, untangling, and is chosen.
I was a healthy subject, and the magnetism continued to affect my nerves, in spite of the untangling passes. Soon after, I rose and took my leave. I was strangely excited, but it was a purely physical, and not a mental excitement. Thinking that a walk would quiet me, I went through street after street, until I reached the outskirts of the city. It was a mild September evening.
"Only until I see you comfortably settled, dear Lady Esmondet, in still untangling the web of 'difficulty," and Vaura's hand is pressed. "I have a twelve-mile drive in a suburban train to the monastery of St. Sebastian." "Nuns and monks, the denouement will be interesting," said Vaura. "Will they win, that's the question; the other hand is full of knaves and tricks," said Lady Esmondet.
"Her salon was the centre about which circled the greatest activity; it was filled with men who ordered events, thinkers whose minds were bent upon untangling the knotty problems of the age; it was her salon, more than any other, that quickened the philosophical movement of the day.
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