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I take no shame in the pride with which I write of my grandfather, albeit he took the part of his Majesty and Parliament against the Colonies. He was no palavering turncoat, like my Uncle Grafton, to cry "God save the King!" again when an English fleet sailed up the bay. Mr.
But neither wily Bunker Hill nor the palavering Professor should pull him this way or that; for Mother Trigedgo had given him a book, to consult on all important occasions.
He believed that the Spaniards came from heaven, and that the realms of the sovereigns of Castile were in the heavens and not in this world. He took some refreshment, as his councillors did also, little dreaming, poor wretches, what in after years was to come to them through all this palavering and exchanging of presents.
"No more palavering with officers out of your own troop this day unless you want double trouble in it, and be damned to you," he added, in low and cautious tone, his eyes furtively following the captain, now twenty yards away.
Why, there are white ensigns flying over a dozen of them! I suppose they are wasting time palavering at present, but when the time for action comes you see they will astonish these Egyptians." "That fellow said this morning that there were twenty thousand troops in the town," Jack said. "If there were a hundred thousand it would make no odds, Jack."
One of our fellows is dead, we are just sending him off to the other world, so you must do a bit of palavering by way of farewell to him. . . . You are our only hope. If it had been one of the smaller fry it would not have been worth troubling you, but you see it's the secretary . . . a pillar of the office, in a sense. It's awkward for such a whopper to be buried without a speech."
Brooks. The old Marylander got away from his soup, got off his chair, and greeted Henry with an effusive display of what might have been his pleasure at seeing the young man, but which had more of the appearance of a palavering pretense. He bowed, ducked his head first on one side and then on the other and his colored handkerchief dangled at his coat-tails.
The first man then called the other two, and after more palavering they began to look savage, and gave us to understand that we were to be their slaves, and work for them. "`Well, says Jack to me, `all we've got to do is to grin and bear it. Maybe, as we are near the sea, we shall have a chance of making our escape.
Miss Pauline screeched, and cried murther in French, and ran off with herself; and of course meself was in a mighty hurry after the lady, and had no time to stop palavering with him any way: so I dispersed at once, and the ghost vanished in a flame of fire!" Mr. Maguire's account was received with avowed incredulity by both gentlemen; but Barney stuck to his text with unflinching pertinacity.
Bob followed him to the main room of the cabin where the mountaineer lit a tallow candle stuck in the neck of a bottle. "Oh, pa, come to bed!" called a sleepy voice, "and quit your palavering." "Shet up!" commanded Samuels, setting the candle in the middle of the table, and seating himself by it. "Ain't there no decisions the other way?"
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