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Of a sudden very cool, with all her faculties about her, Barbara smiled, and stood looking at Lady Valleys, who said with hesitation: "Come in here, dear, a minute, will you?" In that room resorted to for comfort, Lord Valleys was standing with his back to the hearth, and an expression on his face that wavered between vexation and decision.
On his asking whither, they answered, "To the Castle;" and, on his farther asking whether they meant Carisbrooke Castle, they answered, after some hesitation, that their orders were to remove him out of the island altogether, and that the place was to be Hurst Castle on the adjacent Hampshire mainland.
He put the handkerchief away, and then from another pocket produced a second handkerchief, also wrapped in tissue paper. This time it was a fragile affair of lawn and lace. "Smell that, Mr. Winbush." "That's it!" the man exclaimed; no hesitation this time. "You can swear to it?" "Yes, sir." "Rather a pleasant scent but peculiar, Wigan. I do not know what it is."
Prince Sovrani, however, was not a man given to much social observation, nor did he ever break through his half cynical, half gloomy humour, to detail the gossip of Rome, and he therefore sat more or less unmoved, while Angela told him all she could think of that would interest him. At last with a little delicate hesitation, she related the strange story of Abbe Vergniaud, and added,
"Well," rejoined Julius, coldly, after some hesitation, "Mary is pretty; her eye is beautiful; her whole face intelligent, but so pale, so thin her lips so colourless her hands so transparent, that I cannot look at her with any pleasure.
"So I will, if you'll tell me where she lives." "I can't do that." "Where do you live yourself?" inquired Rachel, shifting her point of attack. "In Brooklyn," answered Mrs. Hardwick, with some hesitation. "What street, and number?" "Why do you want to know?" inquired the nurse. "You ain't ashamed to tell, be you?" "Why should I be?" "I don't know. You'd orter know better than I."
Not long after this the father of the young lady came to court, and the queen proposed the subject to him. The father said that he had not been aware that his daughter had formed such an attachment, but that he should certainly give his consent, without any hesitation, to any arrangement of that kind which the queen desired and advised. "That is all, then," said the queen; "I will do the rest."
And I led it without a moment's hesitation, through the unpretentious six-barred gate into the long but shallow crescent of the drive. There were two such gates, one at each end of the drive, but no lodge at either, and not a light nearer than those of the house.
So, without a moment's hesitation, Frobisher dragged his horse's head round by main force, and urged him, by voice, heel, and hand, off the causeway into the flood, and headed downstream after Ling, who had by this time risen to the surface and was yelling madly for mercy and help.
Without a moment's hesitation the animal sprang upon him and carried him to the ground, fixing its fangs into his throat. There was a struggle for a few moments, and then the wolf left its lifeless foe and was about to continue its flight. "Get ready to fire, Harry," Ernest exclaimed as the wolf sprang upon the man, "it is our last chance. If he gets away now we shall never catch him."
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