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"Judas," said Johnny bitterly. He stared around once more, evading her eyes now, and then he moved over and sat down beside her, drawing out his cigarettes. Slowly he took one, tapped its end upon a rock, and lighted it. Then, the case still open, he looked inquiringly at her. "Smoke, Ri-Ri?" he questioned. "Ought to never too late to learn." She shook her head, smiling faintly.
Nothing of any importance happened, either on that day or the next, except that the sky gradually became overspread with those peculiar patches of fleece-like clouds called "trade-clouds" showing that at length we had hit off the north-east trade winds that seemed to have been evading us for so long.
M. de Valorsay was a man of no little penetration, and on his first visit he carefully weighed his new acquaintance. He found him to be the very counsellor he desired prudent, and at the same time courageous; fertile in expedients; a thorough master of the art of evading the law, and not at all troubled by scruples.
Mommsen's dashing criticism on Cicero's writings appears just, though we might trust the critic more if we did not find him in the next page evading the unwelcome duty of criticising Caesar's "Bellum Civile," under cover of some sentimental remarks about the difference between hope and fulfilment in a great soul.
"I understood," said Quentin, evading a decision to which he felt himself as yet scarcely competent, "that the Duke of Burgundy keeps a more noble state than the King of France, and that there is more honour to be won under his banners that good blows are struck there, and deeds of arms done; while the most Christian King, they say, gains his victories by his ambassadors' tongues."
Since then, alas, it would seem that the clear moral reaction of our people to the demonstration of the world struggle has been gradually weakening: we are becoming confused, permitting insidious reasoners to cloud the issue, listening to the prompting of the beast in our own bellies, hesitating, dividing, excusing, evading the great question "seeing both sides."
Are you not again to turn the fearless eye of the eagle on the cliff where Tushielaw hangs like a beetling crag? Is Helen's song to be changed for the raven war-cry; and the blessings of our peaceful household, for the curses of revengeful war?" "How high mounteth Hector on my grandfather's elm!" responded Cockburn, playfully, evading her question.
"You know you did." z "What's your name?" asked the mountaineer, evading the question. "My name is Rector -Ned Rector." "Where you from?" "Missouri." "What you doing here?" "Maybe I am traveling for my health," answered Ned with a half sneer. He was not advancing his own cause by his attitude.
I liked the fellow less than ever when he came into the cabin. He had a certain triumphant air that consorted ill with his trick of evading one's eyes. He came nervously, I thought; but to my surprise Roger's caustic accusal seemed rather to put him at ease than to disconcert him further.
On these terms they lived; and their character, influenced accordingly, was watchful, suspicious, and timid yet obstinate, uncomplying, and skilful in evading the dangers to which they were exposed. When the travellers had pushed on at a rapid rate through many devious paths, the Palmer at length broke silence.
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