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But," he said, pressing those delicate hands not as they were used to be pressed, with a hard seriousness and imperativeness, "you must tell me! I must have an explanation. There can be no delay or quibbling longer." "You hurt me, sir," she said with a little cry, and looked at her hands, "body and mind," she added, with one of her smiles.
Oh, Miss Lucretia, who pride yourself on your plain speaking, that you should be caught quibbling! Miss Lucretia blushed for the first time in many, years, and into her face came the light of battle. "I am a coward, my dear. I deserve your rebuke.
But what he does, my Lords, he dares avow, and avowing, scorns any other justification, than the great motives that placed the iron sceptre in his hand. But a quibbling, pilfering, prevaricating State-Necessity, that tries to skulk behind the skirts of Justice; a State-Necessity that tries to steal a pitiful justification from whispered accusations and fabricated rumors.
And few are so faithful as to be prepared to meet death boldly. It is a kind of monstrous thing, that persons who make a boast of having a little of the gospel, can venture to open their lips to give utterance to such quibbling. Some will say, What do we gain by confessing our faith to obstinate people who have deliberately resolved to fight against God? Is not this to cast pearls before swine?
"You know well enough, you!" came from between the teeth of the man on the ground. "I do not. I can't understand it! Have I ever injured you?" "Injured me? You dodging, lying thief! What are you quibbling for? You know just how you have injured me. Why don't you finish the thing? Get a club and knock out my brains!
The lawyers in court settled back with a new enjoyment at the prospect of the legal and medical hair-splitting and quibbling which invariably accompanies an encounter of this kind, and Crown Counsel and solicitors displayed sudden activity. Sir Herbert Templewood and Mr. Braecroft held a whispered consultation, and then Mr.
The plundering business was warmly discussed between himself and the Admiral, and there was much quibbling and special pleading in defence of the practices which had created so much irritation and pecuniary loss in Holland.
"Pardon me, but you're contradicting your own statement. You just said it was the whistle," he corrected her. "It's the whistle that gives me Check Number Seven. You haven't the least bit of responsibility. The whistle gets it all, just as you said." This was too much. Confuting her with her own words! Quibbling with his own danger in order to make her an accomplice of murder!
A little coldly and very calmly she answered: "You believe you say you believe that I " she broke off, then began again: "It is not right for you to say that to me. I have never led you to believe that I cared for you. Whatever our relations are to be, let us have that understood at once." Bennett uttered an impatient exclamation "I am not good at fencing and quibbling," he declared.
"Oh, er I wanted it for something." "Very possibly. For what?" "I the fact is, I owed it to a fellow." "Ha! How did you come to owe it?" His lordship shuffled. "You have been gambling," boomed Sit Thomas "Am I right?" "No, no. I say, no, no. It wasn't gambling. It was a game of skill. We were playing picquet." "Kindly refrain from quibbling. You lost this money at cards, then, as I supposed.
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