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I have no moral or psychological taboos against killing dictators, or anybody else. Suppose I cooperate with you; what's in it for me?" There was a long silence. Walter and Carl looked at one another inquiringly; the others dithered helplessly. It was Carl who answered. "Your return to your own time and place." "And if I don't cooperate with you?"
She told it, however, in such kind terms, that I made an end to my discomfort by going to fetch the great jack for mother and Kate to look at. When returning, however, I could not help hearing Kate say to Mistress Waynflete, "Without a 'by your leave'?" "As indifferently as if I had been a bag of flour," was the cool reply. And I had dithered like an aspen leaf! "I suppose he half drowned you?"
He comed fra oor toon, and he tellt me hissen the neet afore: 'Jock, 'e said, 'tha'll write to me wife, woan't tha? And ah said, 'Doan't be a fule, Ben, tha'll be all right. 'Noa, Jock, he tellt me, 'ah knaw'd afore ah left heeam ah should be killt. Ah saw a mouldiwarp dead afore oor door; me wife fair dithered when she saw't." The chaplain and myself looked puzzled.
"Look," said the plainclothesman, "there could be something in it for you if you ... hm-m-m ... wanted to make a little extra money." The servant looked regretful. "No chance," he said, "he's leaving today." The plainclothesman jumped. "Today?" "For Darth," said the Embassy servant. "The ambassador's shipping him off on the space liner that came in last night." The plainclothesman dithered.
He flinched and squirmed, great drops of sweat larded his nasty face, and I knew the fear of death and hell was in his marrow. "Do exactly what I say," I whispered, "or through it goes. Understand?" He could hardly nod his ugly head for the trembling of his body, and I fairly dithered as I knelt on him. I made him rise, and then caught hold of the skirt of his coat.
He didn't quite remember the width of the sled. Consequently when with a careless flourish he whisked between two bloodwoods the sled struck one with a shock that for a moment "dithered" the Island. It was just like that sucking earthquake which went off bang under Kingsley's bed when he was in Italy. The bruise is on the tree now, and the sled wasn't worth taking home for firewood.
The pictures danced and dithered. Then he took her hand in his. It was large and firm; it filled his grasp. He held it fast. She neither moved nor made any sign. When they came out his train was due. He hesitated. "Good-night," she said. He darted away across the road. The next day he came again, talking to her. She was rather superior with him. "Shall we go a walk on Monday?" he asked.
As for Tom, though of a shivery disposition, he would have dithered to death before admitting that a bedroom fire might increase his comfort. Johnnie and Jimmie genuinely liked to be cold in their bedroom. Alicia pined for a fire, but Mrs.
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