"AN IMPENETRABLE MYSTERY IS DESTINED TO HANG FOR EVER.
His revolutionary career, sustained by the sentiment and trustfulness of many women, was menaced by an impenetrable mystery - the mystery of a human brain pulsating wrongfully to the rhythm of journalistic phrases.
But just as in the case of the Mystery and the Morality, the Interlude developed out of the Morality, and the two cannot always be distinguished, some single plays being distinctly described by the authors as 'Moral Interludes.' In the Interludes the realism of the Moralities became still more pronounced, so that the typical Interlude is nothing more than a coarse farce, with no pretense at religious or ethical meaning.
The various dramatic forms from the tenth century to the middle of the sixteenth at which we have thus hastily glanced--folk-plays, mummings and disguisings, secular pageants, Mystery plays, Moralities, and Interludes--have little but a historical importance.
In the middle of the hall, opposite the great door, a platform of gold brocade, placed against the wall, a special entrance to which had been effected through a window in the corridor of the gold chamber, had been erected for the Flemish emissaries and the other great personages invited to the presentation of the
mystery play.
Since the fatal hour of the
mystery of The Yellow Room, we have hung about this invisible and silent woman to learn what she knows.
It was a great
mystery to Herr Skopf--and, doubtless, still is.
"Your words are a
mystery, too," returned the young lady.
"She knows all about the
mystery and thinks it perfectly lovely-- and so do I," said the Story Girl.
Toward this they scurried as von Horn turned back into the court of
mystery for the others.
In the devil devil houses, where, before the face of
mystery men and women crawled in fear and trembling, he walked stiff-legged and bristling; for fresh heads were suspended there-- heads his eyes and keen nostrils identified as those of once living blacks he had known on board the Arangi.
This habit of abstention from Feeling in the best society enables a Circle the more easily to sustain the veil of
mystery in which, from his earliest years, he is wont to enwrap the exact nature of his Perimeter or Circumference.