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The faint stain of colour that had showed through Saxham's dead-white skin faded. He waited with strained attention for what was coming. "South Africa Lady Lucy and Mildare bolted to," went on Bingo, "and now you know the kind of mare's-nest her ladyship had scratched up. And," declared Bingo, "rather than have had to spin this yarn.
Herr Gervinus's prodigious discovery about Handel being an Englishman and Shakspeare a German, the incredible mare's-nest Goethe finds in looking for the origin of Byron's Manfred, these are things from which no deliberate care or reflection can save a man; only an instinct can save him from them, an instinct that they are absurd; who can imagine Charles Lamb making Herr Gervinus's blunder, or Shakspeare making Goethe's? but from the sheer German nature this intuitive tact seems something so alien, that even genius fails to give it.
"Seems to me a mare's-nest," said the Sergeant to me dryly, as he cocked his eye and pointed down at the footprints. "No," I said; "the baboons have got something below them on the other side, or they wouldn't keep on like that. Ah! look out!" "What can you see?" cried the Sergeant. "Marks of blood on the ground here.
But, unfortunately, when it's all done it comes to nothing; the whole affair is evidently, from beginning to end, a mare's-nest. It is one of those wild geese which my brother George has been chasing for the last ten years, and which never have resulted in profit to him or anybody else; and I should be something worse than a fool if I were to lend myself any longer to such a folly."
Must thrilling mystery be voted no more than a mare's-nest? Only, did not the fact remain that James had refused to commit himself either way, thereby naturally landing himself in affirmation up to the neck? She gave it up. But, even in the giving up, could not resist probing just a little. The two gentlemen were out of earshot, standing near the glass door.
We shall find that, in spite of the plausibility with which the talent of Marx invested it, this basic doctrine of so-called scientific socialism is the greatest intellectual mare's-nest of the century which has just ended; and when once we have realised with precision on what, in the modern world, the actual efficiency of the productive process depends, we shall see that the analysis of Marx bears about the same relation to the economic facts of to-day that the child's analysis of matter into the four traditional elements, or the doctrine of Thales that everything is made of water, bears to the facts of chemistry as modern science has revealed them to us.
She never did it, but James was forever on edge. This source of possible danger drove him hard. The machine that was growing in a mare's-nest on the second floor began to evolve faster. James Holden's work was a strangely crude efficiency. The prototype had been built by his father bit by bit and step by step as its design demanded.
He glanced casually into the leather box. Some faded tin-types, some letters, a very old Bible, and odds and ends of a young man's fancy: Haggerty shrugged. It looked as if he had stumbled into a mare's-nest. "He said you took money." "He lied," tersely. "Do y' want t' appear against him?" "No. We sail at seven to-morrow. So long as he missed his shot, let him go."
"Your presence will be of great service to me," he answered. "We shall work the case out independently, and leave this fellow Jones to exult over any mare's-nest which he may choose to construct. When you have dropped Miss Morstan I wish you to go on to No. 3 Pinchin Lane, down near the water's edge at Lambeth. The third house on the right-hand side is a bird-stuffer's: Sherman is the name.
"My cuffs will never wash white again, and all I have found is a mare's-nest. However, I'll go to the bottom now. There may be a gold seal they used to put them in with the deeds three hundred years ago. A charter of Edward the Fourth, I declare! Ah, the Yordases were Yorkists halloa! what is here? By the Touchstone of Shepherd, I was right after all! Well done, Long-headed Duncombe!"
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