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"You are quite right, my girl," said Felicite approvingly. "You, at least, love your master in an intelligent fashion." Between the two, Clotilde still seemed irresolute. In her, belief did not bend to the strict rule of dogma; the religious sentiment did not materialize in the hope of a paradise, of a place of delights, where she was to meet her own again.
Her teeth chattered as she stood there, irresolute in the intense and throbbing darkness. "It's only the twins," she assured herself over and over, and began fumbling with the latch of the barn door, but her fingers were stiff and cold. Suddenly from directly above her, there came the hideous clanking of iron chains.
Nothing weak, nothing irresolute could be traced in that form or that lofty countenance; yet all resentment had vanished from his aspect. He seemed at once tranquil and prepared. "You designed to affront me!" said he; "it is well it is a noble confession; and wherefore? What do you propose to gain by it? a man whose whole life is peace, you would provoke to outrage?
But day by day he looked, unseen, on his love in the valley, and the oftener he looked the more irresolute he grew. The conflict between his heart and his reason was gradually shifting in favor of his love. His longing, as it continued to crave, grew from hunger to starving, and though his reason pointed to disastrous results, his heart justified itself in the blind cry, "Rachel, Rachel!"
His face now became very troubled, the tone of his voice very irresolute, the face and the voice of a man who is either blundering his way through an intricate falsehood, or through obscure reminiscences. "This Louis Grayle! this Louis Grayle! I remember him well, as one remembers a nightmare.
But seeing the Reverend Mother's face change expression, she said, "Perhaps another time will suit you better." The Reverend Mother stood looking at her, irresolute; and Catherine, who had never seen the Reverend Mother irresolute before, wondered what was passing in her mind. "I know you are busy, dear mother, but what I have come to tell you won't take very long."
She gravely laid his letter by the side of these specimens, and blushed at the contrast; yet, after all, her own writing, though trembling and irresolute, was far from a bad or vulgar hand. But emulation was now fairly roused within her.
All this Rodman discovered afterwards; but he did not know it then, and so he was only bewildered by the switchman's questions. For a few minutes he stood irresolute, though keeping a sharp lookout for the hurrying switch engines, and moving cars that, singly or in trains, were flying in all directions about him, apparently without any reason or method.
The general onslaught of the League with Ferdinand, Maximilian of Bavaria, and Philip of Spain at its head against the distracted, irresolute, and wavering line of Protestantism across the whole of Europe was just preparing. Rather a wilderness to reign over than a single heretic, was the war-cry of the Emperor.
"Chunda Sahib, however, although he has a good head for planning, is irresolute in action. His troops were discontented at the want of pay. The French contingent also was demoralized, from the same cause.
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