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During the next few weeks, accordingly, nothing of importance happened, from the point of view of the Brackenhurst chronicler; though Bertram was constantly round at the Monteiths' garden for afternoon tea or a game of lawn-tennis. He was an excellent player; lawn-tennis was most popular "at home," he said, in that same mysterious and non-committing phrase he so often made use of.
No more am I. I did not walk from Park Straat and take your defences by storm, and subject myself to the insult of a raised eyebrow on the countenance of a foolish young waiter, to talk nonsense even with you, who are cleverer with your non-committing platitudes than any man I know."
Karl Steinmetz had taken his degree at Heidelberg. He was a seasoned vessel, having passed that way before. Etta was bright enough amusing, light, and gay so long as it was a question of mere social gossip; but whenever Vassili spoke of the country to which he expressed so deep a devotion, she, seeming to take her cue from her husband and his agent, fell to pleasant, non-committing silence.
The memory of all that is half civilized and wholly unique and uncommon: of sleepy and smoky wigwams, where the ten tribes hold powwow in a confusion of gutturals, with a plentiful mixture of saliva; for it is a moist language, a gurgle that approaches a gargle, and in three weeks the unaccustomed ear scarcely recovers from the first shock of it; a memory of totem poles in stark array, and of the high feast in the Indian villages, where the beauty and chivalry of the forest gathered and squatted in wide circles listening to some old-man-eloquent in the very ecstasy of expectoration; the memory of a non-committing, uncommunicative race, whose religion is a feeble polytheism a kind of demonolatry; for, as good spirits do not injure one, one's whole time is given to the propitiation of the evil.
The Englishman looked dubiously at these delicacies and shook his head still obviously desirous of giving no offence. Soup was more comprehensible, and the sailor consumed his portion with a non-committing countenance. But the fish, which happened to be of a Mediterranean savour served in little lumps caused considerable hesitation.
John Smith, of Oxford surely a most non-committing name round sharp corners and over rutty lanes, tire-deep in mud, across the rusty-red moor, till, all at once, at a turn, a gap of stormy sea appeared wedge-shape between two shelving rock-walls. It was a lonely spot. Rocks hemmed it in; big breakers walled it. The sou'-wester roared through the gap.
"I will tell you," went on More, "and I am sure you will keep it private. I think the Holy Maid is a good woman who has a maggot." Ralph's spirits sank again. This was a very non-committing answer. "I do not think her a knave as some do, but I think, to refer to what we said just now, that she has a large and luminous eye, and no hand worth mentioning. She sees many visions, but few facts.
"I do not imagine, little girl," replied d'Audierne, "that you could learn very much that is good from me." Hilda gave a non-committing little laugh, and led the way through the nut-trees towards the house. The Vicomte d'Audierne followed, and Signor Bruno came last. When they emerged upon the lawn in view of Mrs. Carew and Mr.
"Ah! comrade," said one of the boatmen, an Italian who spoke French and had learnt his seamanship on the Mediterranean, by whose waters he would never idle again. "Ah! you are from Moscow?" "And you, countryman?" replied the new-comer, with a non-committing readiness, as he stumbled over the gunwale. "And you an old man?" remarked the Italian, with the easy frankness of Piedmont.
His lean face was in no way disturbed. He seemed quite indifferent to his losses. "I'll quit you, Pedro," he said, smiling lazily down at the Mexican. "You're a bit too hot for me to-day." The dark-skinned man smiled a vague, non-committing smile and displayed a double row of immaculate teeth. "Good. You shall have your revenge.
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