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Experience has warned me never to ask a player for the 'Marseillaise, or 'Croppies Lie Down, or what not; for he is pretty sure to say, 'Why, that's just what I've been giving you, or words to similar effect. Alf at last grew tired of my non-committal remarks and replies, and, with a tact which impressed me more afterward than at the time, named each tune before and after playing it.
My people, I ruminated, could help me to a decision if they only would. But I knew how non-committal they would be; for they, and all their kind, are inclined to assume no responsibility of another's soul, and to surrender no fragment of their own. New York was reached at last, the waves still tossing heavily. When I alighted from the train at New Jedboro, the breath of winter greeted me.
It has been affirmed, that, in time, one will get accustomed to anything, and Clemence had attained to such a proficiency in maintaining a non-committal air, that these little diversions would not have disturbed her equanimity, as she solaced herself with the reflection that, "after a storm comes a calm," but for the fact that this belligerent couple had an unhappy faculty of making up their differences at the expense of a third party, and it became her unhappy fate, as the last new comer, to stand in the place Johnny had formerly been devoted to, as the unfortunate third.
Presumably through a century-long contact with the races of the East, the English diplomat of the Sir Edward Grey type presents the bland, imperturbable, non-committal, almost inane expression of the Oriental that hardly gives one any criterion of the tremendous power of perception and concentration beneath the mask.
Meeting her one afternoon in the lobby, which she was crossing on the way from her bedroom to the drawing-room, he stood aside to let her pass, whispering: "At your service, whenever you are ready, madam!" It was a non-committal remark, which, if she chose to keep up the comedy, he could explain away by claiming it to refer to the summoning of the car from the garage for Mrs.
Drummond said to Winn was, "You see, I feel quite sure that you'll look after Lionel, whatever happens." Winn had replied coldly, "I should never dream of taking a man who couldn't look after himself." Mrs. Drummond said nothing. She just smiled at Winn as if he had agreed that he would look after Lionel. General Drummond was non-committal.
Even his eye, now bright with fever, was dull and non-committal in daily life; and perhaps only the ramifications of his wrinkles could have revealed what particular ambitions had seamed his soul. "Good evening, Amherst. I'm down with a confounded cold." "I'm sorry to hear it," the young man forced himself to say. "Can't get my breath that's the trouble." Truscomb paused and gasped.
She followed my story with an air of stiff aloofness, but this only added fuel to the fervor with which I depicted the opportunity before me "So you have thrown that college of yours out of your mind, haven't you?" she said in a dry, non-committal way I felt the color mounting to my face. "Well, not entirely," I answered "Not entirely?" "I mean Well, anyhow, what do they do at college?
But, if she said nothing and still he came to-morrow, whatever she did then, he would have to take the consequences of his insistence. Her only desire now was to evade him, lest he should force her out of her non-committal attitude. She wanted to shield herself from further pursuit.
Hope you'll overlook it, and be friendly." Plank's face took on the dark-red hue of embarrassment; he looked questioningly at Mortimer, whose visage remained non-committal, then directly at O'Hara. "I should be very glad to be friends with you," he said with an ingenuous dignity that surprised Mortimer.
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