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"I only wish you could have seen your way to being as nice to poor Mrs. Pence. I overheard her didn't I? asking you once more to call. Weren't you rather non-committal? Were you, strictly speaking, quite civil?" "I was as civil as those silly, chattering people round her would let me be that niece of hers and the rest. I'm sure I was careful to ask after her Training School."
I give you fella one case tobacco my word, one case tobacco. Then, you good fella along me, I give you three fathom calico, one fella knife big fella too much." The tobacco and trade goods were brought from the storeroom by two house- boys and turned over to the chief of Balesuna village, who accepted the additional reward with a non-committal grunt and went away down the path to his canoes.
"You'll fight first, won't you?" "Perhaps I will; it will depend upon circumstances," was the non-committal reply. Amos Radbury was no "fire-eater," and, like Austin, preferred a settlement without a passage at arms. At the ford the Mexican commander had ridden into the water to consult with the leader of the Texans. "I am sent here to obtain the cannon you are holding," he said.
You ought to let me teach you. I can teach anybody to dance." "Would you give me a lesson some time?" "Indeed I would." "Better be careful, or I'll be taking you up on that proposition. I'll be coming up to your flat and making you give me that lesson." "Ye-es." She was not offended, but she was non-committal. He warned himself, "Have some sense now, you chump!
And Hodder, as he hesitated over his opening, contemplated in no little perplexity and travail the gaunt and non-committal face before him: "McCrae," he began at length, "you must have thought my conduct this summer most peculiar.
In 1730 also occurred the disagreement between Walpole and Lord Townsend, which ended in the resignation of the latter, a man whose impetuous and frank temper ill fitted him to work with so cautious and non-committal a statesman as his powerful rival.
They were gentle and non-committal; they gave Gregory no cause for triumph, nor Tante for humiliation; they expressed merely her own recognition of a bond. Madame von Marwitz rose to the occasion, but oh, it was there, the soft pressure, never more present to Gregory's consciousness than when it seemed most absent she rose too emphatically, as if to a need.
But the enigma of the girl so deeply intrigued his imagination that it was only with difficulty that he concocted a non-committal telegram to Roddy's friend in the Prefecture that imposing personage who had watched with the man from Scotland Yard at the platform gates in the Gare du Nord.
Why should it?" and he glared at the unoffending letter and the non-committal newspaper. He looked at Ethel, who was surreptitiously concealing a yawn, and was apparently quite undisturbed by the appalling news. He found no inspiration there. Back he went to his mother for support. "What RIGHT have banks to fail? There should be a law against it.
Even John Burnham, who had severely reprimanded and shamed Jason for the flag incident, gravely advised the boy not to go, but even to him Jason was respectfully non-committal, for this was a matter that, as the boy saw it, involved his RIGHTS, and the excitement grew quite feverish when one bit of news leaked out.
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