Yet by betraying any undue anxiety I should certainly negative all my efforts to solve the puzzling enigma, therefore I was compelled to remain content with asking ingeniously disguised questions and drawing my own conclusions from her answers.

She is not of Venice, then?" "A Venetian of the Venetians, my mother, with the love of Venice in her soulbut not" "Marcantonio, explain thine enigma!

" The dear little girls were not long in guessing this ingenious enigma and while they were rejoicing over their success, Mr. P. was suddenly addressed by a man who had been standing behind him.

He sat at his desk trying to puzzle out the enigma of the night.

Circumstances, and a certain bias of mind, have led me to take interest in such riddles, and it may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma of the kind which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.

I shall therefore say no more than that I am, with a very tender regard, Yours, PALFOY" Rejoiced as he was at receiving a letter from the father of his mistress, wrote in a manner which he might look upon as a kind of confirmation he no longer would be refractory to his wishes, the latter part of it contained an enigma he could by no means comprehend.

None the less I cannot really believe that, if we make patient use of our available knowledge, the Alcestis presents any startling enigma.

She saw them face the enigma as uncomprehendingly, as helplessly as she, and she felt the instinct of terror to huddle close to others, even though they feelbecause they feela terror as unrelieved.

But, without any effort on my own part, I seemed to have been drawn into a veritable network of strange incidents, all of which combined to form the most complete and remarkable enigma ever presented in life.

It crossed my mind very forcibly, that, if that was all, the Athanasian Creed had gratuitously invented an enigma.

Finally two of the clever-heads penetrated the enigma: mauvaise honte, shynessso long out of the world, so old; perhaps not sure of her welcome.

As Bill pondered the enigma, out from his bed in the willows came Don Antonio de Chiquito, a meek and lowly burro, the only member of the Aurora's working force which did not outrank in social importance the man-of-all-work.

It did not occur to Jack to question a word of the narrative that had reduced a dismal enigma to luminous, connected facts.

It was no business of mine, to be sure; but with none the less pertinacity did I occupy myself in attempts to resolve the enigma.

" "You are talking enigmas now.

He replied that so great a man as he did not understand enigmas, and that it was sufficient for him to have conquered by his strength and valor.

M. Lontane and all his squad were given peremptory orders to unriddle the enigma.

Mr. P. composed an enigma for a group of these young students.

I had recovered the name of Dr. Khayme, and of Lydia, of Sergeant Jake Willis, of Jones, with possibly another Jones; with these names I ought to work out the whole enigma.

Faith alone can interpret life, and the heart that aches and bleeds with the stigma Of pain, alone bears the likeness of Christ, and can comprehend its dark enigma.

" But Mr. P. did not waste all his time in talking to strangers and concocting enigmas.

Her tone, subdued and musical, conveyed in the mere words their full enigma and full meaning.

He went to ethnographic sources, to the origins of myths, and he compared and elucidated their intricate enigmas.

It remains now to but enumerate the enigmas found in all popular literature, and the satiric sayings attributed to holy persons of the fifteenth century, who, for having been virtuous and having possessed the gift of miracles, were none the less men, and as such bore anger and spite.

"I have fought as well as the other knights," said Zadig, "but another here wears my arms; and while I wait for the honor of proving the truth of my assertion, I demand the liberty of presenting myself to explain the enigmas."