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And I knew then, and I know now, though never a shadow of proof have I, that Isabella Clark had got them and kept them. That woman would stick at nothing. "Well, we'll sift that matter some other time," said Owen impatiently. "There are other things to think of now. I must see Phillippa."
And although Mr. Sidgwick says that social usefulness really means "losing oneself in a mass of disagreeable, hard, mechanical details," and though all the believers in action are fond of asserting the same thing, yet, as to lose ourselves is not what we want, but to find the intelligible law of things, this assertion too we shall not blindly accept, but shall sift and try it a little first.
All of which questions must be taken up by your directors as soon as possible, because my children are fast getting out of hand fast getting away from me; and before I know it I shall have a young man and a young girl to account for and to account to, colonel " "I'll sift out the whole matter with Mr. Tappan; I'll speak to Mr. Grandcourt and Mr. Beekman to-night.
Putting out her foot, she managed to draw it nearer to her, then, dropping her pocket handkerchief, she stooped and picked up the two together, without anybody noticing that she had done so. She put the crumpled note with her handkerchief into her pocket, and went on with her examination, determined to sift the affair afterwards, and to take up the cudgels boldly on Patty's account.
My thoughts, however, were newer still, and had no background of daydreams to stand against. Moreover, things had gone with such a rush that I had had no time to shake and sift them into order. At the foot of that wall all I knew, and that but dimly, was that there were thoughts that made a man's work the one thing worth living for.
On the other hand, where even such a biography as that of Burns is placed by sound and carefully-examined evidence upon an irrefragable basis, a service is rendered to the public beyond the merits of any immediate question that may be under discussion, in the encouragement which it gives to historical inquirers of all grades, to rest satisfied with nothing on vague assertion, but to sift everything to the bottom.
I always looked upon Collins as a decent sort of oddity, says he; 'and I'm determined to sift this matter thoroughly. Frightened me out of a year's growth." Moriarty paused, and drew a long breath. "Well?" said I, hazily; wondering whether this piteous wreckage of plot was owing to some defect in my own strategy, or to bad lieutenantry in the working out.
Nor was the Bruce himself much less agitated. "She did wrong, she did wrong," he said, "to leave herself so long unguarded; yet who was there to commit this outrage? There is some treachery here, which we must sift; we must not leave our noble countrywoman in the hands of these marauders. Trust me, Alan, we shall recover her yet." But the night promised ill for the fulfilment of this trust.
No doubt many had private reasons for their untrumpeted migration to that kindly Southwest which buries identity, but no wise citizen busied himself with questions about antecedents. The present served to sift one, and by the way a man met it his neighbors judged him. And T. L. Morse met it competently. In every emergency with which he had to cope the man "stood the acid."
Bill looked up and twisted round so that she could see what they were doing. "What are they playing?" she whispered. No one answered. I was thinking. Sailor sixty dollars a month rent Italian wife letters from New York. "I will see," I said, and stepping down I walked across to the stump. I was fully resolved to sift the matter as far as I could to the bottom.
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