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Another trait is that of evasiveness in speech This an appearance only, arising from a peculiar regard to truth and from a caution about the proper use of words, induced by circumstances in the discipline, and by the peculiarities in the Quaker language.
The Chevalier's departure to Spain had been a puzzle to him before; he remembered now that the Chevalier had agreed with reluctance to his enterprise, and had never been more than lukewarm in its support. That reluctance, that lukewarmness, he had attributed to a natural habit of discouragement; but the evasiveness of Cardinal Origo seemed to propose a different explanation.
Here is the call. Ten thousand dollars a year! What will she say to that?" He spoke aloud in his excitement, all that was masculine in him glowing with the sense of hard-won mastery over the tantalizing evasiveness of the woman. On leaving his house he folded up the letter, thrust it into the breast- pocket of his frock-coat, and strode rapidly up the hill towards Mrs. Hooper's.
She presently did so, while Morris looked at him, smiling, without a sign of evasiveness in his affable eye. "He's amazingly conceited!" thought the Doctor; and then he said aloud: "I am told you are looking out for a position." "Oh, a position is more than I should presume to call it," Morris Townsend answered. "That sounds so fine.
Her thought flew to yesterday compared the kind radiance of the face beside her, its look of brotherly confidence and appeal, with the look of yesterday, the hard evasiveness with which he had met all her poor woman's attempts to renew the old intimacy, reknit the old bond. She thought of the solitary, sleepless misery of the night she had just passed through.
It is also necessarily an effect of fine shades, delicate values, vanishing distinctions, of evasiveness, inconsequence, suggestion. It is also absolute, unrelated it is positive or negative or superlative it is never comparative. Well, the Anglo-Saxon public is totally insensible to such things. They can no more feel them, than a blind worm can feel the colours of the rainbow."
He knew that this feminine evasiveness was probably inevitable; they were made that way, these girls; but he did not intend to let the time limit of an expensive long-distance call be exceeded by mere nonsense. "Ye-es, but " "Now listen. We've got three minutes to talk; we've used thirty seconds already saying nothing. I'm going to be on that train.
A certain evasiveness, polish, distrust of ourselves, amounting to insipidity and insincerity, is spoken of by observant foreigners. In other words, we are perhaps the least like children of any people in the world. All these things were against Whitman, and will continue to be against him for a long time. With the first stroke he broke through the conventional and took his stand upon the natural.
Quailing in spirit, still reluctant, in his asceticism, to comprehend and reckon with her personality in the fulness of its present manifestation, he answered her at random, and with none of the pause and playful evasiveness usual to his speech. "I am very glad we have found you," Katherine said frankly. "I was afraid, by the fact of your not coming to breakfast, that you were overtired.
"Wa'al," he replied after a moment, lowering the paper and looking gravely at his companion over his glasses, "next to the deakin's religious experience, them of lawin' an' horse-tradin' air his strongest p'ints, an' he works the hull on 'em to once sometimes." The evasiveness of this generality was not lost on Mrs. Bixbee, and she pressed the point with, "Did ye? an' will he?"
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