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And Una shyly forbore to answer. Occasionally it is easier to land gracefully after a long jump than a short one in the case of an awkward gulf to be crossed!
On one occasion a visitor was shown up to his room, and immediately their voices were heard in high altercation, and the key was turned within the lock. The landlady, at first, was disposed to go to the assistance of her lodger; but a calm succeeding, she forbore to interfere.
"We did not know," they answered humbly; "you came to us so seldom, we had forgotten; we were fools." "I came and went fifty years," he answered bitterly, "and I have forgotten how to rid the little city of the plague!" At that one of the women, mad with anger, made as if to catch him by his beard, but she forbore, and said: "Liar the men shall hang you to your own rooftree!"
The Fathers, it seems, had the right of exacting two more presents, to rebuild their house and church, supposed to have been shaken to the earth by the late calamity; but they forbore to urge the claim. Last of all were three gifts to confirm all the rest, and to entreat the Jesuits to cherish an undying love for the Hurons.
The lips of both his friends parted as if to utter a protest, but there was something so determined in Frank's eyes, so stern and set about the lines of his mouth, that they forbore, and the doctor spoke gently "Very well, Frank, lad," he said gravely; "you have had far more experience among these people in the city than I have, and you know the need of caution.
He was convinced that he alone had persuaded Lady Eynesford into including Daisy in her invitation to luncheon at the opening of the flower-show. It would have been a pity, in the mere interests of truth, to interfere with this conceit of Dick's, and Eleanor forbore to disclose her own share in the matter, or to hint at that long interview between the Governor and his wife.
He seated himself absently in his chair of state, and turned his eyes upon the door with manifestations of impatient expectancy; seeing which, the company forbore to trouble him, and fell to chatting a mixture of public business and court gossip one with another.
"That's a beginning anyway. Our next step must be to make sure that all these lorries carry certificates. We had better begin tomorrow." Willis did not quite see how the business was to be done, but he forbore to ask questions, agreeing to fall in with his companion's arrangements. These arrangements involved the departure from their hotel by taxi at six o'clock the next morning.
Thomas, the coachman, who had been a fisherman in his day, announced with a grin, after accompanying her on the trial trip of the hired cat-boat, that he could teach her nothing about sailing. Henceforth her small craft was almost daily a distant speck on the horizon, and braved the seas so successfully under her guidance that presently the aunts forbore to watch for disaster through a spyglass.
Great as was the astonishment of Cecilia at the conclusion of this speech; she was at the coach door before she could make any answer: but Delvile, perceiving her surprise, added, while he handed her in, "Is it possible but no, it is not possible I should be again mistaken. I forbore to speak at all, till I had information by which I could not be misled."
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