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Thereupon Salvat began his perusal much after the fashion of a schoolboy, hemming and hawing here and there, occasionally becoming confused, and then bringing out certain words with wonderful emphasis, which evidently pleased him. This declaration of his was the usual cry of suffering and revolt already raised by so many disinherited ones.
Master George, with better-directed zeal, asked the apothecary whether bleeding might not be useful; when, after humming and hawing for a moment, and being unable, upon the spur of the occasion, to suggest any thing else, the man of pharmacy observed, that it would, at all events, relieve the brain or cerebrum, in case there was a tendency to the depositation of any extravasated blood, to operate as a pressure upon that delicate organ.
Father took off his hat with his right hand and scratched his head deliberately and deliberatively with his left, `humming' and `hawing' over this crucial question. "Well, sir Cap'en Mordaunt that is, begging your pardon, sir, ag'in," said he "as you goes on to make sich a favour on it, sir, we'll see about it, sir." "See about it?
No, I'm not in love with him not likely but what business had he to go talking like that, and hemming and hawing, and hinting, and oh!" cried Trix, with a sort of vicious screech, "I should like to tear his eyes out!" "I dare say you would the desire is both natural and proper," answered Edith, smothering a second desire to laugh; "but, under the circumstances, not admissible.
Here Beethoven, after humming and hawing with great sweetness, said "Heigho," and the Andante came to an end. Applause, and a round of "wunderschoning" and pracht volleying from the German contingent.
And if the judge of the neighbouring court, after much legal hemming and judicial hawing, decides in his great wisdom that the said defendant Barclay has been charged in the indictment with no crime, and instructs the jury to find a verdict of not guilty for said defendant John Barclay, upon the mere reading of the indictment, what are the odds?
For a time he nearly deserted the schoolhouse for the Italian camp in the pines, or at least was flying back and forth a great deal, "hawing" and "harring." All appeared to go well for a while. Then one forenoon I heard loud shouts outside, and on going to the door, saw a hatless Italian pursuing Blackamoor across the pasture below the house.
He had just seated himself and was mopping his perspiring brow when Henley rose and stood hemming and hawing and clearing his throat. "I want to say in this same connection," he began, "that I plumb approve of this new idea of taking the great and living Truth into remote corners of our spiritually dark land.
And if at any time, my dear friend, you should be temporarily in want of money, the doctor said this in a shame-faced, hesitating sort of way, with not a little humming and hawing 'in want of money for immediate necessities merely, if you'll only be so kind as to write and tell me, I should consider it a pleasure and a privilege to lend you a ten pound note, you know just for a short time, till you saw your way clear before you.
Randel took his papers out of his pocket, his certificates, those poor, worn-out, dirty papers which were falling to pieces, and gave them to the soldier, who spelled them through, hemming and hawing, and then, having seen that they were all in order, he gave them back to Randel with the dissatisfied look of a man whom some one cleverer than himself has tricked.
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