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But never for a moment did he falter, or waver, or equivocate. He refused to make any promise. He stood upon his rights as an American citizen. He was opposed to slavery in Kansas, and intended to oppose it as long as he lived.
To be sure, the former possessed the advantage of being uttered spontaneously; but it was likewise true that it was spoken under momentary excitement, without foresight of the consequences, and possibly without due consideration of the facts. An innocent man or woman, under the influence of terror, will often equivocate in regard to matters that seem to criminate them. But the key!
"You need not equivocate more. Is it to me that you have taken a dislike? or to any part of my arrangements?" "Believe me, dear Lady Verner, that it is neither to you nor to your home," she answered, the tears rising to her eyes. "Believe me, I am as happy here as I ever was; on that score I have no wish to change." It was an unlucky admission of Lucy's, "on that score."
"Well, to others. I won't equivocate to Col. Selby?" Laura's face flushed with anger, or shame; she looked steadily at Philip and began, "By what right, sir, " "By the right of friendship," interrupted Philip stoutly. "It may matter little to you. It is everything to him. He has a Quixotic notion that you would turn back from what is before you for his sake.
When from distant considerations men resolve upon any thing to which they have no liking, or perhaps an averseness, they are perpetually finding out evasions and excuses, which need never be wanting, if people look for them: and they equivocate with themselves in the plainest cases in the world.
"I will not equivocate; I will not excuse; I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard," was the announcement with which he opened the campaign, which he subsequently carried on with more conspicuous vigor than success.
Don't hope to escape. If murder comes to Drusus he may perish, but he has friends who will fearfully avenge his death." "Mercy! Mercy!" howled the Ethiop, falling on his knees and clutching at the young Greek's robe, "I know very little of the plot. I only know " "Don't equivocate," thundered Agias. "If I had known the kind of man you were, I would hardly have saved you from those street ruffians.
You have thwarted them, and overreached me; but I am not one to be thwarted and overreached without retaliation. Do you mean to hold this living another month? 'Do you deem it possible, Lady Fareway, that I can hold it another hour, under your injurious words? 'Is it resigned, then? 'It was mentally resigned, my lady, some minutes ago. Don't equivocate, sir. IS it resigned?
He then commenced questioning the Ranger upon his knowledge of Sir Willmott Burrell and the Rabbi's daughter. Robin did not in the least degree equivocate; but related every particular as minutely and distinctly as he had done to Ben Israel; not omitting his knowledge that Sir Willmott meditated the destruction of Walter De Guerre.
When a temper naturally ingenuous stoops to equivocate, or to dissemble, the anxious pain with which the unwonted task is laboured, often induces the hearer to doubt the authenticity of the tale. I cast a hasty glance on both gloves, and then replied gravely "The gloves resemble each other, doubtless, in form and embroidery; but they cannot form a pair, since they both belong to the right hand."
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