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But, Mr Dale, you may be sure of this; I will speak to her very earnestly of your kindness and love for her. And I wish you would believe that I feel your regard for her very strongly." In answer to this he merely shook his head, and hummed and hawed. "You would be glad to see them married, as regards yourself?" he asked. "Certainly I would," said Mrs Dale.
But you hemmed and hawed so, I had to make it 'some day soon. Of course, I never expected the fifty; ten will be enough for car-fare all around and some beer and sandwiches, that's all we ever have. That's why I chucked in Augustus to make sure. Well, see what you can do, and don't forget to write the note and I'll do the rest of the lying." And chuckling to himself he hurried away.
His sheer skill and resourcefulness in life had always borne him safely through every difficulty from a prize-fight to a soprano's embrace. "A strange doctrine, Brother Smith!" said Jock's own pastor. The other two hummed and hawed, and brought the tips of their fingers together. "Nay!" said Jock, persuasively smiling. "'Stead o' bringing 'em to starvation, bring 'em to the House o' God!
To saunter into the woods and do nothing was not at all in accordance with Michel's usual mode of life; and though he hummed and hawed, and doubted and grumbled, he took a note of all his son said, and was quite of a mind to make use of his son's wit. 'I shall be over at Epinal the day after tomorrow, he said as they left the mill, 'and I'll see if I can get the new crank there.
We'll settle up when the day is over, and every second you lose now will cost you hundreds of dollars. It's sure to go to 160. Don't keep me waiting say the word?" Mr. Gallivant jammed his hands deep into his pockets to prevent their betraying his excitement, and hemmed and hawed. "Do you really think it's worth while, Thwicket!" "Great guns, man! You make me " "Now, don't be nervous, Thwicket.
Whereupon Kenelm had hemmed and hawed and, at last, admitted that his company for the drive was already provided. "Oh!" sneered Hannah. "I see. You're goin' to take that precious inmate of yours along. And I've got to set here alone at home. Well, I should think you'd be ASHAMED." "What for? Ain't nothin' in takin' a lady you're keepin' company with out drivin', is there?
"And if you were to withdraw your own design," he asked, somewhat nervously, hardly knowing how best to frame his delicate question, "do you think ... the directors ... would be likely to accept this one?" Erasmus Walker hummed and hawed. He twirled his fat thumbs round one another in doubt. Then he answered oracularly, "They might, of course; and yet, again, they mightn't."
But I let it pass, and made but the one suggestion, that I should be described as ready to deliver my own evidence and adduce that of others before any commission of inquiry and the one demand, that I should be immediately furnished with a copy. Colstoun hummed and hawed. "This is a very confidential document," said he. "And my position towards Prestongrange is highly peculiar," I replied.
I held in as long as I could, till I thought I should have busted, for no soul could help a larfin, and at last I haw hawed right out. You good for nothin stupid slut you, said the old lady, to poor Beck, it serves you right, you had no business to leave it there I'll pay you. But, said I, interferin for the unfortunate critter, Good gracious Marm! you forget the fire.
When he died his widow offered it to the government, but they hummed and hawed about the price, and was for gitting it for half nothing, as they always do.
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