Besides, there are many such mysteries in the world.
Why do cats occasionally wash their heads behind the ear?
Clearly, to tell us that we may expect bad weather; for the bad weather invariably follows.

These are all providential arrangements intended for our personal convenience, and are not to be accounted for on any cut-and-dried scientific theory.

Lubin's erudition was certainly very great, but there was something exasperating about it too.
So Austin went in to lunch thoughtful and dispirited, wondering why there were so many absurdities in life that he could neither elucidate nor controvert.

He decided not to say anything to Aunt Charlotte about Lubin's magpie sciolisms, lest he should provoke a further outburst of the discussion they had held in the morning; he had had the best of that, anyhow, and did not care to compromise his victory by dragging in extraneous considerations in which he did not feel sure of his ground.

Aunt Charlotte, on her side, was inclined to be talkative, taking refuge in the excitement of having work-men in the house from the uneasy feelings which still oppressed her in consequence of those frightening raps.