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"Do not injure an innocent man," interposed the Prince, desirous at every sacrifice to preserve his favourite from the menaced danger: "I pledge my word that Ramorny was employed in business of mine, therefore could not be engaged in this brawl." "False equivocator that thou art!" said the King, presenting to the Prince a ring, "behold the signet of Ramorny, lost in the infamous affray!
Very well, boldface, said he, and equivocator again! You did not open your mouth to any other; but did not you write to some other? And so I am to be exposed, am I, said he, in my own house, and out of my house, to the whole world, by such a sauce-box as you? No, good sir, said I, and I hope your honour won't be angry with me; it is not I that expose you, if I say nothing but the truth.
Scoot, you yaller pizin!" was a common adjuration whenever the unfortunate animal intruded upon a card party. "Ef thar was a spark, an ATOM of truth in THAT DOG, I'd believe my own eyes that I saw him sittin' up and trying to magnetize a jay bird off a tree. But wot are ye goin' to do with a yaller equivocator like that?"
'Surely it was for to-morrow, was it not? answered The Dancing Master. 'I understood I fancied I'm so sorry How very unfortunate! But Mrs. Mallowe had passed on. 'For the practised equivocator you said he was, murmured Mrs. Hauksbee, 'he strikes me as a failure. Now wherefore should he have preferred a walk with The Dowd to tea with us? Elective affinities, I suppose both grubby.
But an equivocator uses them in a received sense, though there is another received sense, and therefore, according to this definition, he does not lie.
For, as it happens to every one who from childhood onward has always been on his legs, and in foreign lands, I have also encountered on my path many strange and dangerous spirits; above all, however, and again and again, the one of whom I have just spoken: in fact, no less a personage than the God DIONYSUS, the great equivocator and tempter, to whom, as you know, I once offered in all secrecy and reverence my first-fruits the last, as it seems to me, who has offered a SACRIFICE to him, for I have found no one who could understand what I was then doing.
Equivocator, again! said he, and took my hand, what do you talk of an argument? Is it holding an argument with me to answer a plain question? Answer me what I asked. O, good sir, said I, let me beg you will not urge me farther, for fear I forget myself again, and be saucy. Answer me then, I bid you, says he, Have you not told Mrs. Jervis?
"Interrupt me again, and I'll lave you, sir. In confidence between ourselves, thinking as once I did, that I might depend on your friendship and discretion, equally with your honour, I confessed, I repented a rash promise, and let you see my regret deep enough that my son-in-law will never be what Dora deserves I said, or let you see as much, no matter which; I am no equivocator, nor do I now unsay or retract a word.
For, indeed, sir, I never was more in earnest than I am, when I say to-night is the last night I will ever speak to you." *Liefer; rather. "Yet had I LEVRE unwist for sorrow die." CHAUCER, Troilus and Creseide. "Last night, you sweet little equivocator, but not last day.
I made a common talk of it, sir! said I: I have nobody to talk to, hardly. He interrupted me, and said, Hardly! you little equivocator! what do you mean by hardly? Let me ask you, have not you told Mrs. Jervis for one? Pray your honour, said I, all in agitation, let me go down; for it is not for me to hold an argument with your honour.
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