This was, to him, the final triumph of existence-to have it in his hand, to roll it round and round, to bang it down upon the floor and watch it jump, this was the reason why one was here, this the solution of all Perplexities.
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole
Henry Galleon, even though he was too ill to talk, would put him right with all his Perplexities, would give him courage to cut through all these complications that had been gathering, lately, so thickly about him.
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole
Or was there a still more humiliating answer to her Perplexities?
"The Greater Inclination"
Edith Wharton