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Laverick was broad-shouldered, his skin was tanned a wholesome color, his bearing was the bearing of a man prepared to defend himself at any time. The constable smiled in a non-committal manner. "If you'll excuse my saying so, sir," he remarked, "I don't think this is exactly the spot any one would choose for an assault."
"Of course, sir, I don't want to urge my private wishes against " "Quite so; quite so; I understand that. A a private wishes, you say?" "Yes, sir; entirely private." The gray-blue eyes rested on him in a gaze meant to be uninquisitive and non-committal, but which, as a matter of fact, expressed something from which Strange turned his own glance away.
"How are things going?" Ford's rejoinder began with a non-committal shrug. "We're building a railroad, after a fashion." "After a good fashion, I hope?" Another shrug. "We're doing as well as we can with the help we have. But about this right-of-way tangle " and he plunged his guest into a discussion of the Copah situation which ran on unbroken until bedtime.
His eyes focused angrily on the enormous first page headlines: "CARROLL HAS SOLVED WARREN MYSTERY "Identity of Clubman's Slayer Known to Famous Detective "Sensational Developments Promised by David Carroll in Exclusive Interview with Reporter for The Star." It all came back to Carroll now. The eager reporter, the news-hunger, his non-committal statements. He read furiously through the story.
He is spending the afternoon at the Admiralty and she thought I might be interested." Major Thomson's face was expressionless and his murmured word non-committal. Granet had approached the dark mahogany sideboard and was fingering some bottles. "Let me mix you a cocktail," he suggested. "By Jove! That fellow Conyers would be the fellow for your American chaplain to get hold of.
"I wonder when he will return?" dreamily said Johnstone, as if the subject was growing annoying in its bold directness. "I believe that he has a long leave a furlough of a year," lightly answered the Major. "In fact, I am to carry on some official matters for him in his absence, but he is wary and non-committal."
Perhaps at this or an earlier point I should have gone blushing away and forever pondered in secret the problem of Count Filgiatti's intentions. I confess that it didn't even occur to me it was such a little Count and so far beyond the range of my emotions. Instead, I smiled in a non-committal way and said that Count Filgiatti's prudence was most unique.
Bill gave a non-committal grunt, and as the captain, after the manner of his kind, took a last look round before retiring, placed his hands on the hatch and lowered himself down. The next moment he came up with a wild yell, and, sitting on the deck, rolled up his trousers and fondled his leg. "What's the matter?" inquired the skipper.
The ladies of the party sniffed audibly, and raised their somewhat moth-eaten eyebrows at each other in virtuous disapproval of a young female who provoked such remarks from strangers. The valet, who had the air of being engaged to the maid with the nose, confined himself to a non-committal grin, but the second and third chauffeurs loyally supported their leader.
When she contrasted the image of the pale student, so affectionate, so unselfishly considerate in all things, with the commanding figure and cold, guarded, non-committal face of Mr. Palma, she shivered and groaned: but the comparison only goaded her to find safety in the sheltering love, that must at least give her peace.
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