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He took the pains to verify the two statements. Then there was but one thing to do to lay the matter before the parents of the girl. Now, as so often happens in American families, the banker and his wife stood in some awe of their daughter. There was not that confidence between them which one traditionally supposes to exist between parents and children.
He had shaved off his beard; but, bless your heart, I knew him directly." "He came to verify his suspicions," suggested Wardlaw, in a faint voice. "Not he. He came for love of the sick girl, and nothing else; and you'll never see either him or her, if that is any comfort to you." "Be good enough to conceal nothing. Facts must be faced." "That is too true, sir.
The old chaplain pulled strongly at his pipe, setting the blue wreaths of smoke circling about his head. "I should know that young fellow again wherever I might chance to see him." "Did he collapse at last and verify the surgeon's prophecy!" asked the dealer.
I propose to make a beginning by putting two capable men and a boy in an office, with instructions to cut out, preserve, and verify all contemporary records in the daily and weekly press that have a bearing upon any branch of our departments.
Colbert colored, and then became pale, for he felt that from that minute he entered upon a struggle with a man whose power almost equaled the sway of him who had just died. "Yes, sire, a very able man," repeated Colbert, bowing. "But if M. Fouquet is an able man, and, in spite of that ability, if money be wanting, whose fault is it?" "I do not accuse, sire, I verify."
A long time ago, a certain Daimio invited a number of persons, versed in the various ceremonies, to call upon him to explain the different forms to be observed by the official witnesses who inspect and verify the head, &c., and then to instruct him in the ceremonies to be observed in the act of suicide; then he showed all these rites to his son and to all his retainers.
The story of Sethos was attached to the statue of some deity which was supposed to hold a mouse in its hand. It must have been easy to verify this supposition; but Mr. Sayce adds, 'mice were not sacred in Egypt, nor were they used as symbols, or found on the monuments. To this remark we may suggest some exceptions. Apparently this one mouse was found on the monuments.
He is consequently debarred from saying that an idea that eventually gets psychologically verified WAS already true before the process of verifying was complete; and he is equally debarred from treating an idea as true provisionally so long as he only believes that he CAN verify it whenever he will. Whether such a pragmatist as this exists, I know not, never having myself met with the beast.
In addition to all this his exquisite sense of hearing enabled him to detect the slightest variation in your tone of voice. If you hesitated or betrayed the least uneasiness his suspicions were at once aroused and he took steps to verify from other sources any statement you made under such circumstances. It will be readily understood that with his keen and analytic mind Mr.
In fact, the only physical proof that remained to verify his story, was a curved blue spot where the ingoing current from the magnet had carried particles from the carbon point and lodged them beneath the skin.
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