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You and poppa were so patient and forbearing, all through; and I thank goodness now for everything you put up with; only I wish I could have borne everything myself." "You had enough to bear," Mrs. Kenton said, in tender evasion. "I'm glad that I had to bear so much, for bearing it is what makes me free now."
Being pressed as to the precise force of his assertion, and being asked whether it meant more than that under the existing laws, such as the Royal Marriage Act, there had been no marriage, because there could have been no legal marriage, he declared that he meant no such evasion, but that no marriage ceremony, legal or illegal, had ever taken place; and farther, that in saying this he was speaking on the direct authority of the Prince himself.
"That, sir, is an evasion, not an answer." "If read aright, Mistress Cynthia, it is also an answer." "That you do not fear me?" "It is not a habit of mine." "Why, then, have you avoided me these three days past?" Despite himself Crispin felt his breath quickening quickening with a pleasure that he sought not to account for at the thought that she should have marked his absence from her side.
"Yes," he replied, with a slight evasion in his tone and manner; "we have been busier than usual to-day." As he spoke the young wife arose, and taking her slumbering child into the adjoining chamber, laid it gently in its crib. Then returning, she made the tea the kettle stood boiling by the grate and in a little while they sat down to their evening meal.
In her strange state of extra-lucidity, which gave her the sense of being already at the heart of the situation, it seemed incredible that any one should think it necessary to linger in the conventional outskirts of word-play and evasion. "It was not that I was not ungrateful," she insisted.
Even the most attached of Napoleon's own functionaries connived at the universal spirit of evasion his brothers themselves, in their respective dominions, could not help sympathising with their subjects, and winking at the methods of relief to which they were led by necessity, the mother of invention.
"No evasion, no lies; speak out, and at once;" and the grasp tightened on the boy's throat. Gabriel's readiness of resource and presence of mind did not long forsake him. "Loose your hold, and I will tell you you stifle me." The man slightly relaxed his grasp, and Gabriel said quickly "My mother perished on the guillotine in the Reign of Terror; I am for the Bourbons.
True, his most daring feat the leap from the train resulted not in liberty, but in a broken head. But he essayed a task too high even for his endeavour, and, despite his manacles, at least he left his boot in the astonished warder's grip. No less remarkable than his skill and daring were his means of evasion. Even without a formal disguise he could elude pursuit.
This declaration the directors considered, as it really was, a mere evasion, which helped to alienate the minds of that people from the king's person and government.
The characteristics of parts of the American coast prevented close blockade, especially in winter; and the same violent winds which forced an enemy's ships off, facilitated egress under circumstances favoring evasion. Escape to the illimitable ocean then depended at worst upon speed.
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