Everything looks so easy and simple and plain upon the surface, and yet is so puzteling and complicated beneath; all seems so intelligible, where there is nothing in reality that is not a contradiction.
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever
Terrified by the menacing applications addressed to Mr. Martin on his son's account, and which arrived by every post, Lady Dorothea had resolved upon herself entering upon the whole state of the Captain's liabilities, as well as the complicated questions of the property generally.
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever
No, it's much more complicated than that.
"I Walked in Arden"
Jack Crawford