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Updated: May 11, 2025
Sidwell raised her eyes and spoke gently, with voice a little shaken. 'Why should you call it recklessness? I have never thought of the things that seem to trouble you so much. You were a friend of ours. Wasn't that enough? It seemed to him an evasive reply. Doubtless it was much that she showed neither annoyance nor prudish reserve.
The cousins seemed to assemble between them a great range of qualities which are never found united in one person and seldom in half a dozen people. Where Katharine was simple, Cassandra was complex; where Katharine was solid and direct, Cassandra was vague and evasive.
Then, as he replied only in sentences sad and evasive, she said: "I am near you, but you do not care for me. You are preoccupied by some idea that I do not fathom. Yet I am alive, and an idea is nothing." "An idea is nothing? Do you think so? One may be wretched or happy for an idea; one may live and one may die for an idea. Well, I am thinking." "Of what are you thinking?" "Why do you ask?
Heyst stared at the guests whom the renounced world had sent him thus at the end of the day. The only other vestige of light left on earth lurked in the hollows of the thin man's eyes. They gleamed, mobile and languidly evasive. The eyelids fluttered. "You are feeling weak," said Heyst. "For the moment, a little," confessed the other.
It is alleged against the Quakers, as another bad trait in their character, that they are not plain and direct, but that they are evasive in their answers to any questions that may be asked them. There is no doubt but that the world, who know scarcely any thing about the Quakers, will have some reason, if they judge from their outward manner of expression, to come to such a conclusion.
That is the touchstone which enables us to discern whether such an attack is sent from Heaven." "But, Father, he must at any rate be comforted." "I can do nothing but pray for him." "Another question: our friend is possessed by the notion of a monastic life; perhaps you ought to send him to a convent." The Abbé gave an evasive shrug.
As the keen-edged machete cut through the last of these, the released man fell forward in a faint, and the young American, catching him in his arms, laid him on the sward. "Bring water!" he ordered, with a sharp tone of authority, and the negro obeyed. "You no kill him?" he asked, as he watched Ridge bathe the blood from the unconscious man's face. "Not now," was the evasive answer.
Lockwood is very friendly with her," he admitted, then seemed to think something else necessary to round out the idea. "Mr. Kennedy, I might have told her the same myself. Senorita Mendoza has been a very dear friend for a long time." I had been so used to having him evasive that now I did not exactly know what to make of such a burst of confidence.
Creatures elsewhere the most evasive and timid are here found fighting like gladiators: the eels bite everybody within their reach one of these combative eels caught by our author measured twelve feet three inches; the fresh-water prawns "strike so sharply with their tails as to draw blood if not carefully handled."
Then, as she closely scanned him with her keen eyes, he sought to answer her with kind, evasive words. "You greatly embarrass me. And, besides, I know nothing likely to interest you. What good would it do yourself or your husband to stir up all the dead past? Take my advice, forget what people may have told you you are so sensible and prudent "
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