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Audrey and herself ought to have been in that box, and had the afternoon developed otherwise they probably would have been in that box. Fortunately at the luncheon, Audrey, who had bought various lots of seats, had with the strange cautiousness of a young girl left herself free to utilise or not to utilise the offered hospitality of Mr. Gilman's double box, and Mr.
And at this the army gave such a shout and showed such excitement, that their officers led them on full of hope and confidence to the danger. Caesar's party were routed, and put to flight; but his presiding fortune used the advantage of Pompey's cautiousness and diffidence, to render the victory incomplete. But of this we have spoken in the life of Pompey.
"Yes, that was probably, that was assuredly, the way Sarah Brandon reasoned within herself." But Henrietta, full of admirable energy, had roused herself; and, with flushed cheeks and burning eyes, she said to him, "What! you knew all this? You knew that they were assassinating my father, and you did not warn him? Ah, that was cruel cautiousness!"
With instinctive cautiousness I lay motionless, furtively noting the curious scene. A moment's careful attention explained it in part. One by one the rails of the fence were taken up with the utmost caution and borne away. They were building breastworks somewhere. There was work to be done, I thought, and preferred to finish my much delayed sleep, if allowed to do so.
There were reasons, however, for this cautiousness besides those unfounded, although not entirely chimerical, suspicions as to the King's good faith, to which we have alluded.
But a deep, underlying spirit of cautiousness prevented his often yielding to appetite in such measure as to lose control of himself.
The mirza is quiet and undemonstrative in his manners, as compared with his social superior; and as becomes a person gifted with the rare talent of composing and writing letters, his bump of cautiousness is several degrees larger than the khan's, but is, nevertheless, not large enough to counterbalance the pernicious effect of an inherited and deeply rooted yearning for filthy lucre and a lamentable indifference as to the manner of obtaining it.
"Sir knight," answered Hereward, "let me begin first by saying, that no knight that ever belted sword is more a slave to truth, when truth is observed towards him, than the poor soldier who talks to thee; but when the game depends not upon fair play, but upon lulling men's cautiousness asleep by falsehood, and drugging their senses by opiate draughts, they who would scruple at no means of deceiving me, can hardly expect that I, who am paid in such base money, should pass nothing on my part but what is lawful and genuine.
It is a business that will require considerable tact and discretion; or at least, great secretiveness and cautiousness," added Captain Pendleton. "And these, Joe, like all his race, possesses in excess," observed Lyon Berners. "Are the guests all gone away from the house?" inquired Sybil. "Nearly all. My sister remains there for the present to watch your interests, Mrs. Berners.
Even now," he added after a pause, "the cautiousness, the dread of change which comes with old age might, I think, lead me to be afraid of it if I didn't perceive behind it the spirit of Horace Bentley." It struck Holder, suddenly, what an unconscious but real source of confidence this thought had likewise been to him. He spoke of it. "It is not that I wouldn't trust you," the bishop went on.
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