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I would gladly help you, see you through any difficulty by the way, but I'm afraid I must draw the line at active partnership," I answered a little lamely under her mocking eyes. Once more, as suddenly as before, she veered round. "There is a limit, then, to your devotion?" She was coldly sarcastic now, and I realized painfully that I had receded in her favour.
"Fine form," he said coldly, "to come unarmed on an errand of mercy to a desperado." Nan flushed with vexation. "I came away in such a hurry I forgot it," she replied lamely. "A forget might cost you your life." "Perhaps you've forgotten you left a cartridge-belt behind once yourself," she returned swiftly. The retort startled him. How could she know?
"Unfortunate man," said Miss Elizabeth, "don't you see how clear you're making it that you really meant to hide from us?" There seemed to be something in that, and my tirade broke up in confusion. "Oh, no," I said lamely, "I hoped I hoped " "Be careful!" "No; I hoped to work down here," I blurted. "And I thought if I saw too much of you I might not." She looked at me with widening eyes.
"I've just come from Lord's, and Teddy won't be very long." "Why didn't you bring him with you?" asked Miss Belsize pertinently. "Well, I thought you ought to know the worst at once," said Raffles, rather lamely for him; "and then a man playing in a 'Varsity match is never quite his own master, you know. Still, he oughtn't to keep you waiting much longer."
The story rambled on, the Lynotts plotting how they could be revenged on the Barretts, telling lamely but telling how the Lynotts, in the course of generations, came into their revenge.
Cool and competent as he was, Bertram presently looked disconcerted; he did not easily forgive those who disconcerted him, and, making no further effort to carry on the conversation, he sat silent, smiling a little, and waited for his partner to turn to him again. Had Gregory not taken up his talk, lamely and coldly, with Madame von Marwitz, she would have been left in an awkward isolation.
He told it very lamely and badly, but still in such a manner that she soon understood the whole of it. 'And so you have resigned it? said she. 'I have had no opportunity of accepting it, he replied. 'I had no witnesses to Mr Slope's offer, even if that offer would bind the bishop. It was better for me, on the whole, to keep on good terms with such men than to fight for what I should never get!
Unless the side which opens the debate has something definite to propose, the debate must open more or less lamely, for it is hard to attack or oppose something which is going to be set forth after you have finished talking.
At least, that is she broke off lamely, fearing to reflect on George. 'I find it hard to believe that George would act without consulting you in any way. It is strange enough that he should have undertaken to furnish the house in your absence. 'But if I couldn't be there! pleaded Ella 'and I couldn't.
She had, therefore, begun to tone her indifference and withhold the little bitter speeches that only fortified Abel's hate. She had even argued with him lamely enough and advised him not to persist in a dislike of his father that could not serve him in after life. But he had continued to rejoice in his hatred.
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