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I would keep it up. "Have you taken leave of your senses?" I demanded, assuming an indignation I did not feel. "Dr. Pettit was saying nothing to me that could possibly interest you." I felt a little twinge of conscience at the fib, but I had too much at stake to hesitate over a quibble.
"I don't give a damn what you expected to see," said Mr. Anthony Cardew. "I want to see my daughter." "Your daughter? You have said for a good many years that you have no daughter." "Stand aside, sir. I didn't come here to quibble." "But I love to quibble," sneered Doyle. "However, if you insist I might as well tell you, I haven't the remotest intention of letting you in."
The large thing to do is the only thing we can afford to do, a voluntary withdrawal from a position everywhere questioned and misunderstood. We ought to reverse our action without raising the question whether we were right or wrong, and so once more deserve our reputation for generosity and for the redemption of every obligation without quibble or hesitation.
But Francis liked it all. The gallant courtiers with their song and fence, and quibble and prattle and pun; the gaily dressed ladies; the masques in the great hall of the castle; the pomp and ceremony that attended the queen when she went abroad: all appealed to her æsthetic nature. She soon learned to distinguish the courtiers.
Humans may indulge in vagaries innumerable, and may go far afield in the way of lying; but a ship may not so much as quibble without suspicion. The least lapse of "regularity," the least difficulty in squaring performance with intuition, and behold she is on the black list, and her captain, owners, officers, agents and consignors, and even supercargoes, are asked to explain.
'Did she refuse to listen to your suggestion that she should leave her order? he asked. Giovanni did not like to admit the fact, and paused a moment before answering; but he was too truthful to quibble. 'Yes, she did. 'What reason did she give for refusing? 'None! 'Did she merely say, "No, I will not"? 'You are cross-examining me! Giovanni fancied that he had a right to be offended.
"You certainly deserve that I should say yes without a quibble," replied Fenton, "but your air is so serious that I do not dare run the risk; so I will merely answer, I would like to do you a favor if I may." She came and sat down near him, a beautiful woman, flushed and tender.
A blotch of crimson showed upon the cheek-bones and the dull eyes glowed. "God's name, man! did you not hear me? Do you serve me or the Dauphin? Which? Go! go! go!" This time Commines obeyed, and obeyed in silence. The King's question was not one which called for an answer; or rather he understood that Amboise must give the answer, give it emphatically and without a quibble.
Her eyes, though they were under the shadow of her hat, and he could not be certain, he diagnosed as green, or may be blue, or possibly grey. Not that it mattered, for he had a catholic taste in feminine eyes. So long as they were large and bright, as were the specimens under his immediate notice, he was not the man to quibble about a point of colour.
"I suppose," she ventured, after long thinking, "that that's the money we've been living on all these years?" "Yes; in the main." He felt it useless to quibble or to try to extenuate the facts. "How many years would that be?" "I'm not very sure; on and off, it's about ten since I began using some of their money to help out my income.
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