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He was an opportunist with all the quickness of one who must live by his wits among others existing on the same uncertain fare. He saw her flush, and again he hesitated as a wayfarer may hesitate when he finds an easy road where he had expected to climb a hill. What was the meaning of it? he seemed to ask himself. "Charles does not interest you so much as he interests your sister?" he suggested.
Arnold moved slowly away, but before he had reached the street Isaac's hand was upon his shoulder. "One moment!" Isaac panted. "My friend would like to know why you looked at him like that?" Arnold did not hesitate. "Isaac," he said, gravely, "no doubt I seemed surprised. I have seen that man before, only a night or two ago." "Where? When?" Isaac demanded.
His nerves were well strung and he was constitutionally brave; but never before had he felt so uncomfortable as he now did. Every moment he expected to have Long Sam galloping after him; and he felt very sure that those who contemplated the assassination of the king would not hesitate to kill him, if they fancied it would conduce to their safety or interest to put him out of the way.
Vivian Standish was a thorough man of the world I use the word in its most literal acceptation. He was one of those cool, keen, calculating, diplomatic men, who never lose their presence of mind, who never hesitate, and yet are never precipitate, who always say the right thing in the right time, and to the right people.
If you, for instance, had not already decided upon a plan for spending the ensuing year, I should not hesitate to offer you the position we desire to fill." Cabot trembled with excitement. "I Mr. Hepburn!" he exclaimed. "Would you really have offered it to me?" "Certainly I would.
Emily briefly related the accident of their meeting in the presence of her father, and then so earnestly entreated the Count not to hesitate in declaring what he knew, that he perceived the violent emotion, against which she was contending, and, regarding her with a look of tender compassion, considered how he might communicate his information with least pain to his anxious auditor.
Some of them seemed to hesitate, and then to fall and lie where they fell, others hurrying on until they disappeared in the drifting clouds. It was the foremost line of our infantry attack, led by the bombers. The Germans were firing tempests of shells. Some of them were curiously colored, of a pinkish hue, or with orange-shaped puffs of vivid green.
The old General led his forces northward to Glencoe, notwithstanding the President's protest, and a day afterward Kruger arrived on the scene. The President was warrior enough to know that a great mistake had been made, and he did not hesitate to show his displeasure.
I hurriedly disclaimed any wish to pursue the subject, and she was silent as if revolving the scene. But why should I now hesitate to own that though all the propriety of speech and silence had been on Miss Burney's side, my own sympathies were engaged with the poor lady.
He did say that he did not get any pleasure when one was showing what there was. He did not wish to go. It was not the rest. He did not refuse to repeat everything. It was a likely day to hear the music play the day when the little one was not any larger. She did decide the very wide street to avoid and she did not say how prettily they play. She did not hesitate any.
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