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He seemed to ask it as a matter of course and as one who had the right to be answered without equivocation. Frank Merrill laughed. "My uncle is Mr. John Minute," he said, and added, with a faint touch of sarcasm: "You probably know him." "Oh, yes," said the other readily.
The first months of his second marriage had brought him, as a part of richer and deeper joys, this enveloping sense of a clear moral medium, in which no subterfuge or equivocation could draw breath.
The only manner in which reason has been applied to its defence is, that it is a reasonable deduction from the divine revelation upon which it is based; which revelation must be accepted as true without question or equivocation. To doubt is to be damned. In fact, its unreasonableness, from any natural human viewpoint, was quite freely admitted.
The teeth of the new dragon were sown by the Cadmus who introduced the alphabet of equivocation. What was levity in the time of the Tudors grew to regicide and revolution in the age of the Stuarts." Who was that boarder that just whispered something about the Macaulay-flowers of literature? There was a dead silence.
Then, bethinking me that there was no need for such equivocation here, I was on the point of giving her my name. But noting my hesitation, and misconstruing it, she forestalled me. "I understand, monsieur," said she more composedly. "And you need have no fear. You are among friends."
There is no name in the language of national jurisprudence that can define it no model in the records of ancient history, or in the political theories of Aristotle, with which it can be likened. It was introduced into the Constitution of the United States by an equivocation a representation of property under the name of persons.
"Though an inmate of you father's house, you are often away from home?" "No, very rarely." "Oblige me by giving a straightforward answer. What do you mean by rarely?" "Very seldom." "This is mere equivocation; will you give me a straightforward reply?" "I can't make it more so," said Erica, keeping her temper perfectly and replying to the nagging interrogatories.
"You must study to be frank with the world; frankness is the child of honesty and courage. Say just what you mean to do on every occasion, and take it for granted you mean to do right. If a friend asks a favor, you should grant it, if it is reasonable; if not, tell him plainly why you cannot; you will wrong him and wrong yourself by equivocation of any kind.
If you do not like this definition, take another; and then, by means of that, perhaps you will be defending St. Alfonso's equivocation. However, this is what I insist upon; that St. Alfonso, as Paley, is considering the different portions of a large subject, and he must, on the subject of lying, give his judgment, though on that subject it is difficult to form any judgment which is satisfactory.
I had promised Welbeck to conceal from every one my former condition; but to explain in what manner this bundle was lost, and how my intercourse with Clavering had taken place, was to violate this promise. It was possible, perhaps, to escape the confession of the truth by equivocation.
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