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Impassive, non-committal, and always able to clothe his thoughts in an impenetrable garment of well-chosen words, applicants for place rarely obtained positive assurances that their prayers would be granted, but they hoped for the best, thinking that "The King is kind, and, well we know, the King Knowest what time to promise, when to pay." Mrs.
There were not a few who, upon learning of the resolutions of the convention, felt that "Pelham" was a close adviser of its measures if not one of its delegates. Public opinion was so wrought up by the assumed disloyalty of the Hartford Convention that in 1815 it forced the publication of the convention's brief and non-committal "Journal."
The Indian was very non-committal as regarded his gold mine, but very willing to accept the sumptuous hospitality so freely rendered him. He was soon passed on from one disappointed Mexican to another, who in turn fared no better and invariably sped the parting guest to the door of his nearest neighbor.
You have, it is true, the choice of using the stuff as a dubious paste, or of mixing it with water into a non-committal wash; and, whichever plan you adopt, you wish you had adopted the other. Why it need be so unpalatably cloying is not clear to my mind. They tell me the sugar is needed to preserve the milk. I never could make out that it preserved anything but the sugar.
And how was he with her so far? Charming, easy, bold yes; but also reserved, absolutely non-committal. She was not at all sure whether she was going to be of much use to Dick Garstin, except perhaps in her own person. Instead of delivering to him the man he wanted to come at perhaps she would end by delivering a woman worth painting herself.
This homely and non-committal gibe satisfied most of the audience, and I was about to proceed to the next question when my interlocutor, a litigious-looking man with blue spectacles, rose in the circle and cried "You are evading the question, sir! Give me an answer. Are you in favour of Woman's Suffrage or not?" "That's fair! Give him his answer!" came the cry from the fickle audience.
"No; the dog started to bark, and I left as quickly as I could." "I see." Barrant's voice was non-committal, followed after a pause by a quick change of tone. "I shall investigate this story later," he said coldly. "Meantime " "Why not investigate it immediately?" asked Charles in a disappointed voice. "Thalassa will be back directly, or I can take you down to the cliffs were I left him."
"What a pity I didn't know earlier!" He was disturbed as well as flattered, for such a remark from such a person as Irene Wheeler to such a person as himself was bound to be disturbing. His eyes sought audaciously to commune with hers, but hers were not responsive; they were entirely non-committal. "You are the man that wouldn't let my friend Lois drive him in my car, aren't you?"
But it is evident that the world could never provide him with furniture corresponding to the texture of his mind; and hence he would instinctively lay hold of that which was most commonplace and non-committal. If he could realize nothing outside himself, he might at least remove whatever would distract him from inward contemplation.
Germain, rosy and active, saluted his superior gallantly. The latter returned the action with a non-committal countenance. "A gentleman calling himself the Marquis de Lotbinière has just been here. Do you know him?" Germain braced himself. "I have heard of him in Canada," he said, "but his Marquisate is not believed in there." "You Canadians have strange tales of each other.
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