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I like to be entreated to marry, and then again, to be entreated NOT to marry. I like to hesitate between the French and the Dutch. I am not in the least sure on which side I shall finally range myself." "Then do not decide in a hurry." "Have I not told you I like to waver, and vacillate, and oscillate, and make scruples? These are things a woman can do, both with privilege and inclination.
But however Jerome might vacillate in his theory, as in his practice, concerning the permanent obligations of truthfulness, Augustine stood firm from first to last in the position which is justified by the teachings of the Bible and by the moral sense of the human race as a whole, that a lie is always a lie and always a sin, and that a lie can never be justified as a means to even the best of ends.
Though his ears could scarce believe it on that Saturday night, when there was not within earshot any function or reception going on, there came feet up those splendid, shallow steps feet which seemed to halt, and even vacillate beneath a swaying body. The mere suspicion was shocking; but even worse, to that cultivated ear, was the clamour of the bell which followed.
This I soon discovered to be beyond the capacity of an ordinary lifetime, for whereas we, with four hundred million subjects find three religions to be sufficient to meet every emergency, these irresolute island children, although numbering us only as one to ten, vacillate among three hundred; and even amid this profusion it is asserted that most of the barbarians are unable to find any temple exactly conforming to their requirements, and after writing to the paper to announce the fact, abandon the search in despair.
But by the end of the third twenty-four hours, with his first two worries reasonably eliminated, it was the accident to his plans that smote upon him with the fiercest poignancy. Let a man's clothes and togs vacillate as they will between his trunk and his bureau once that man's spirit is packed for a journey nothing but journey's end can ever unpack it again!
He ceased to doubt, or vacillate, directly; he whispered Jael Dence to stand near Grace, and watch her closely. He had seen a woman start up and throw herself, in one moment, out of a window, for less than this a woman crushed apparently, and more dead than alive, as Grace Carden was. Then he took out his own letter, and read it in a low voice to Mr.
Greatness, near at hand, is startlingly like inconsistency; it seems at moments to vacillate, to turn back upon and deny itself, and thus lays itself open to seemingly plausible criticism by politicians and time servers and all who cry out for precedent.
To doubt to tremble with anxiety to vacillate hither and thither between this course and the other as to which may be the better to complain within one's own breast that this or that thing has been an injustice to hesitate within one's self, not quite knowing which way honor may require us to go to be indignant even at fancied wrongs to rise in wrath against another, and then, before the hour has passed, to turn that wrath against one's self that is not to be a coward.
In this still vacillating mood of mind Sir Harry reached his lawyer's. Mr. Boltby did not vacillate at all. When he was shown the letter he merely smiled. "I don't think it is a bad letter," said Sir Harry. "Words mean so little, Sir Harry," said Mr. Boltby, "and come so cheap."
Elizabeth, who at once began to vacillate under the combined threats of La Mothe, the French ambassador, and the arguments of the friend of Catholics, Lord Arundel, was counter-threatened with ruin by Lord Keeper Bacon unless she would throw in her lot finally with the Protestants and continue her hostility and resistance to the Catholic Scotch party.
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