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It all depended with whom Miss Blake had lately been most intimate. If she had been "hand and glove" with a "nob" from her own country she was in no way reticent about thus styling her grander acquaintances, only she wrote the word "knob" who thought to conceal his nationality by "awing" and "hawing," she spoke about people being "morried" and wearing "sockcloth and oshes."
The credit belongs to Rias Richardson for hawing been the first to piece these three facts together, causing him to burn his hand so severely on the stove that he had to carry it bandaged in soda for a week. Cynthia Wetherell had reformed Jethro. Though the village loved and revered Cynthia, Coniston as a whole did not rejoice in that reform.
Dexter to fill one of those vacancies and her friend Miss Josie O'Gorman one of the others." There was much hemming and hawing at this proposition. "Too young!" was the general verdict, but Dr. Weston declared that Mary Louise was not too young to give her property to the home, and then he hinted wisely of other things she might give.
That is more than I can afford; it must not exceed three hundred this year." "I will do my best to keep the expenses down, father; but I can assure you that there is no money wasted now." Then came a pause, which, after humming and hawing a little, Philip was the first to break. "Do you know that I saw your cousin George yesterday? He is back at last at Isleworth."
Young Matthews had just been taunting the old gentleman with being afraid to sleep on his own domain, and as the eyes of all the tavern loungers were on him he could hardly decline so flattering a proposition, so, after some hemming and hawing, he said he would take the Quaker at his word.
Either there will be much hemming and hawing, and much virtuous and judicial weighing of your peculiar case, article by article, or the President himself will decide one way or another off-hand he being what he is. For that reason I think it would be well to approach him by degrees, let him digest it a bit.
And I verily believe, if it hadn't been for that old sober-sides of a Hempel, I should have come a cropper long ago." "Yes, and Hempel," said Polly softly; "Hempel's been wanting to leave for ever so long." "The dickens he has!" cried Mahony in astonishment. "And me humming and hawing about giving him notice! What's the matter with him? What's he had to complain of?" "Oh, nothing like that.
It was quite evident he had had little doubt of my acceptance, and no idea of a positive denial. He was amazed, astounded at such an answer, but too incredulous to be much offended; and after a little humming and hawing, he returned to the attack.
Or yes, I am. I hate to have a man inconsistent." "It's inconsistent for any one to kill himself. But it's frequently done." Havelock, hemming and hawing like this, was more nearly a bore than Chantry had ever known him. "Not for Ferguson." "Oh, well, never mind Ferguson," Chantry yawned. "Tell me some anecdote out of your tapestried past." "I won't." Havelock dug his heel in harder.
I was alone in the schoolroom next afternoon when Mr M'Swat sidled in, and after stuttering and hawing a little, delivered himself of: "I want to tell ye that I don't hold with a gu-r-r-r-l going out of nights for to meet young men: if ye want to do any coortin' yuz can do it inside, if it's a decent young man.
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