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Agar cunningly confined herself to a non-committing "Yes." After a sigh, Sister Cecilia further expatiated. "I cannot but think," she said, "that Stagholme will be in better hands now. Of course dear Jem was very nice, and all that a dear, good boy. But do you not think that Arthur is more suited to the position in some ways?" "Perhaps he is," allowed Mrs. Agar, with ill-concealed pleasure.
James Mesurier, as we have said, was no judge of poetry; and, had he been so, a reading of his son's early effusions would have made him still more obdurate in the choice for him of a commercial career; but on general principles he was quite sufficiently firm against any but the most non-committing, leisure-hour flirtation with the Muse.
From her father she had inherited a discriminating mind and a most admirable habit of reserve. She was quite happy when alone, which, according to La Bruyere, is a great safeguard against all evil. She wanted to be alone now, and therefore passed out of the open window with a non-committing "Good-bye, Aunt Anna!" "Good-bye, dear," replied the lady, awaking suddenly from a reverie.
This man had come to him for some particular purpose, and it behooved him to keep guard on himself. The doings of the night before were in his mind, and he realized that it would be well to meet him coolly. Therefore, instead of the outburst so natural to him, he contented himself with a cool survey of his antagonist, while he put a non-committing inquiry. "Wal?"
Being himself the son of a small Scotch tradesman, brought up in the Free Kirk, and elevated into his present exalted position by the early intervention of a Balliol scholarship and a studentship of Christ Church, he felt at liberty to moralise in such non-committing terms on the gradual decay of aristocratic exclusiveness.
She might then have understood more fully the man she was dealing with. However, she turned to the window and spoke with her back to him. "It's about things," she said a little lamely. The man's smile was something ironical, as his eyes greedily devoured the beauty of her figure. "I'm glad," he said in a non-committing way. Then, as no reply was immediately forthcoming, he added, "Get going."
De Vasselot looked at her non-committing face and held his peace. There was more in this than a man's philosophy might dream of. "When do you go?" he asked after a pause. "To-night, from Nice," was the answer. And, as has been noted, Denise and mademoiselle arrived at Bastia in the early morning, and drove to the Casa Perucca, in the face of more than one rifle-barrel.
She was alone. She carried a sketching-block. All nice girls sketch a little. There was room for one alone on the footbridge, and I drew back to let her pass. It being the privilege of woman to make the first sign of recognition, I said nothing. I merely lifted my hat in a non-committing fashion. "Are you going to cut me, I wonder?" I said to myself.
"THERE'S one in the eye for C.," he said, chuckling. "What would C. say to that, I wonder? She always calls him C., you know; it's so jolly non-committing. She says, 'I only wish that beastly old bore C. were at Halifax which is where he comes from and then I would fly at once to my own dear Reggie! But, hang it all, Reggie boy, what's the good of true love if you haven't got the dibs?
She singled out No. 36, which has a carved stone balustrade to its broad verandah and a railing of wrought-iron on either side of the steps descending from the verandah to the street. "They teach dancing?" she inquired. And Koch nodded again, taking snuff. "And he the father?" "He scrapes a fiddle," replied the verger, examining the lady's basket of fish in a non-committing and final way.
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