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As he could not well give the real reason for his decision, and had no experience in social finesse, he came off badly when asked why he had come to this sudden decision. He could not equivocate; and when Mrs. Wilson asked him point-blank if Berenice had been treating him badly, he could only take refuge in the reply that it was not for him to criticise what Miss Morison chose to do.
The expression of her face was so menacing that he quailed before it. He stammered: "True what?" "Your marriage." He was silent at first, asking himself whether he should tell the truth or equivocate. At last, irritated by Bertha's imperious tone, he replied: "Yes." She was thunderstruck at this response. Till then, she had a glimmer of hope.
"I am; a citizen of the world." "You must not equivocate with justice. Where did you live before you were arrested?" "On the globe." "What profession?" "None." "On what then do you live, have lived, or expect to live?" "To-day on nothing, for your guards have given me nothing. Yesterday, I lived on what I could get. To-morrow, it depends on circumstances whether I shall want any thing."
Permit me to decline answering that question." "And you know nothing of Mollie's previous disappearance of that mysterious fortnight?" "My good woman, be reasonable. I'm not an astrologer, nor a wizard, nor yet a clairvoyant. I'm not in Miss Dane's confidence. I put it to yourself how should I know?" "You shuffle you equivocate!" cried Miriam, impatiently. "Why don't you answer at once yes or no?"
Why, he doesn't scruple to lay out the United States mails for his material trains!" "Um," said Adair. "Where can I reach Ford?" Mr. North did not equivocate; he never lied when the truth would answer the purpose equally well. "He is out on the extension; or more correctly speaking, somewhere beyond the present end of the construction telegraph line. I'm afraid you couldn't reach him by wire."
The temptation to equivocate for pure perversity's sake was strong upon Elinor, and she yielded to it. "How should I know? He has the Amphitrite and the Florida coast, hasn't he?" Mrs. Brentwood groaned. "To think of the way he squanders his money in sheer dissipation!" she exclaimed.
Within those walls no good was ever done; but daily, unmitigated evil, whose results were reaching on to torture unborn generations. He had consented to it all! He could not falter, or equivocate, or evade, or excuse. His dead friend's words rang in his conscience like the trump of the judgment angel. He was conquered.
If Asar-Mut should question him, he would not evade nor equivocate, so I shall send him away that he may not meet his uncle. I would not have him lie, but he shall not accomplish his own undoing." But days of seeking followed, growing frantic as time went on, and there was no trace of the lost artist. Even his pet ape did not return.
I am in earnest I will not equivocate I will not excuse I will not retreat a single inch AND I WILL BE HEARD." Martin Luther's "Here I take my stand," was not braver or grander than the "I will be heard," of the American reformer. It did not seem possible that a young man, without influence, without money, standing almost alone, could ever make good those courageous words.
"Abe," said he, solemnly, "Douglas will answer yes, or equivocate, and that is all the assurance these Northern Democrats want to put Steve Douglas in the Senate. They'll snow you under." "All right," answered Mr. Lincoln, quietly. "All right?" asked Mr. Medill, reflecting the sheer astonishment of the others; "then why the devil are you wearing yourself out?
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