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"I think you have not made a thorough examination of the closet yet," was his noncommittal reply. "Oh, that's where you keep it? I say girls " in a loud whisper, perfectly audible to everyone in the room, "let's carry it off before he has a chance to use it." "Hardly worth while, since it would be no difficult matter to replace it," remarked the captain, with assumed gravity and sternness.
Nor can the story of the first two be told without including in it an account of later acts of the Assembly and of the attitude of the College during the years of the great schism. The pastor of the New Haven church was Mr. Noyes, whom many of his parishioners thought too noncommittal, erroneous, or pointless in discussing the themes which the itinerant preachers loved to dwell upon. Moreover, Mr.
Most ominous of signs, he did not press her hand in the least, when he took it in his own. His voice was no longer winning, but harsh and neglectful. Indifference brooded in the heart of the monster. The worst of it was, that he had been so cautious and noncommittal in his declarations, that she could not upbraid him for his perfidy.
I worked for her father some years ago, and became greatly interested in her." "Indeed? Then you must know Henry Lincoln?" "Yes, I know him," said Billy; while George continued, "And think but little of him of course?" On this subject Billy was noncommittal. He had no cause for liking Henry, but would not say so to a comparative stranger, and at last he succeeded in changing the conversation.
"I've a suit case at the hotel," she said, and went on to tell him the experiences of her journey and of her encounter with Detective O'Gorman. During this relation, which he did not interrupt, Mr. Conant toyed persistently with his watch charm. His features were noncommittal but he was thoroughly interested.
You come to think him as little human as the calendar, only that his numbers are told off with the significance of sound, the suggested menace of a cry. If the "sounding" comes too near the steamer's draught, or the pilot fails to hear the reading, the Captain repeats it. He often does so when there is no need; it is a form of conversation, noncommittal, yet smacking of authority. "Ten."
"Do Benson and Charles both believe in the ghost?" "It seems as if they do." The constable's voice was noncommittal. As Colwyn rose to go, Queensmead looked at him with a trace of hesitation in his manner. "Perhaps you'd answer me a question, sir," he said in a low tone, as though afraid of being overheard.
But the nurse, after reviving him, said: "He is in no special immediate danger. Talking about his trouble overstrained him, but in the end it may do him good." "Then will he get well?" asked Mary. "He may," was the noncommittal answer. "His recovery would be hastened, however, if his mind could be relieved.
He paced the corridor, nodding here and there, pausing for a moment to chat with this or that personage, affable, noncommittal, Chesterfieldian, handsome and distinguished in his clean, silver-touched middle age. Inwardly he was fretting for their appearance his débutante and Mme. Robin Hood. Of course they must do the conventional thing and be late.
I was never a sentimentalist, and I therefore answered, cannily, that that would depend on who she was. He parried this, and announced that, anyway, a new mamma was coming; I was sure to like her. Still in a noncommittal mood, I asked: 'Will she go with me to the back of the lime-kiln? This question caused my Father a great bewilderment.
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