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Certain "considerations," however, loom inconclusively upon this issue rather like interested spectators of a street fight in a fog. For example, to learn a language is valuable "in proportion as the nation speaking it is great" a most empty assertion; and "no languages are so good," for the purpose of improving style, "as the exact and beautiful languages of Rome and Greece."
And, anyway, just to look at me is proof that you don't have to get ground up in the hopper like everybody else or shut the door of the industrial squirrel-cage on yourself in order not to starve. Perhaps that'll give some cleverer person the courage to start out on his own tangent." Lydia drew a long breath at the conclusion of this statement. "Well " she said, inconclusively; "well!"
She changed the subject. The repast, which had commenced with due ceremony, degenerated into a feminine mess, hasty, informal, counterfeit. That elaborate and irksome pretence that a man is present, with which women when they are alone always begin to eat, was gradually dropped, and the meal ended abruptly, inconclusively, like a bad play. 'Let's go for a walk, said Ethel.
He did not expect the President to act on his own initiative, but at the request or at least at the suggestion of the German Government, he might conceivably sound the Allies especially, he added, "since I am informed that the notion is wide-spread in America that the war will end inconclusively as a draw."
It was nothing a mere matter of " the word "habit," she knew, hovered on his lips, though he did not utter it, and broke off inconclusively. So there had not been even the excuse of emotion about it. He had embraced her as instinctively, as methodically, as he might have switched on the electric light over his desk.
The knowledge that she was scheming to rush him blindfold into the irrevocable weakened everything weakened the sincerity of pique, and the sincerity of passion; even her kisses had not the lure she wished for them. That stormy little meeting ended inconclusively. "Will you some tea, gnadiges Fraulein?" Pushing Jon from her, she cried out: "No no, thank you! I'm just going."
Byrne found it a hard matter not to fall into listening to the silence. Somehow he had the conviction that nothing would break it unless he heard again the haunting sound of Tom's voice. He had heard it twice before. Odd! And yet no wonder, he argued with himself reasonably, since he had been thinking of the man for over thirty hours continuously and, what's more, inconclusively.
Time pressed; he could not and would not deviate from his appointed track; all that was possible to him was to indicate the road to discovery, and exhort others to follow it. Partially and inconclusively at first this was done. Conjectures as to their origin were indeed rife. An explanation put forward by Zantedeschi and others, and dubiously favoured by Sir David Brewster and Dr.
"I will pay you the tribute of assuring you that it is not," replied the Sepoy. "Ah, ha!" returned Raikes with a mirthless grin. "I am to accept the brief custody of this gem as a recognition of my personal integrity. I see, I see. Well, I would appreciate the courtesy more if I could indorse its incaution. However," he added abruptly, "why did you end that extraordinary tale so inconclusively?
He looked away at the blue mountains on the horizon; then his gaze dropped to the chimney-top below the pasture. "He's down there now?" "Yes." He shifted his weight again, crossed his arms, and continued to survey the distant landscape. "Well, so long," he said at last, inconclusively; and turning away he shambled up the hillside.
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