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I am ashamed to say that I cannot at this moment recall where we met, but I am so glad of this opportunity, I am sure! Then pouncing upon Twemlow, who holds back with all his feeble might, he is haling him off to present him, as Veneering, to Mrs Podsnap, when the arrival of more guests unravels the mistake.
Yet the thought, lit into life by her own words, as a flame is lighted by striking a match, had given her courage which would not die. "Then he will be the first," she said. "I have been thinking. Oh! it has all been very vague a kind of dream. But now I see everything clearly. Time unravels mysteries not easily solved at first. His innocence must be proved.
Now, every part of our bodies is a kind of Penelope's web, with this difference that here the web unravels at one end as fast as the work progresses at the other.
'We were not oppressive and we left the lady Penelope to weave the web, and the months have gone by and still the web is not woven. But even now we have heard from one of her maids how Penelope tries to finish her task. What she weaves in the daytime she unravels at night. Never, then, can the web be finished and so does she try to cheat us. 'She has gained praise from the people for doing this.
Have you ever known of a soldier or an aviator who wore wristers?" "I give mine to my mechanician. He sends them home, and his wife unravels the yarn and makes sweaters for the youngsters." "Think of the waste energy. Harness up the wrist-power and you could keep three aircraft factories going day and night." "Oh, well, if it amuses the women, what's the difference?"
The theoretical historian communicates his own character to his history; and if, like Robertson, he be profound and politic, he detects the secret motives of his actors, unravels the webs of cabinet councils, explains projects that were unknown, and details stratagems which never took place.
The unconcern and skill with which the performer of this song unravels the mixed up duplet and triplet groups, is evidence of his inherent sense of rhythm, as it pertains to the symetry of note groups and their embodiment as beat-units into larger, varying measure-units; but his indifference, as he juggles his metric values of 2/4, 3/8, and 3/4 time, shows an entire absence of appreciation for form as revealed in even-measured sections, phrases, and periods of modern music.
"In short, he means to work such a complexity here that the man who unravels it must needs be divine." At this moment the door that cut off the rest of the house from this dining-room opened smartly and the supposed Philadelphus stepped in. He closed the door behind him and glanced at the filled table. Those there seated rose.
"I have had no time to make one yet." "Will you listen to mine?" "Do not I always listen to you with the greatest respect?" She was the charming woman again. "Mr. McLane told me that I was to follow your advice I have an idea you have engineered this whole affair! But if he hadn't well, I have every reason to be humbly grateful to you. If this terrible tangle ever unravels I shall owe it to you."
His battered face is reconstructed by plastic surgeons and, with the help of his loving wife, he gradually recovers his will to live. But he never develops a proper sense of identity. It is as though he is constantly ill at ease in his own body. As the plot unravels, Dan is led to believe that he may have murdered his wife's lover, Jack.
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