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I prefer my own sex; they are much more discriminating, and when they like you they like you, and there's no more shilly-shally. Those men never know their own minds!" Four days later Darsie went by appointment to her tete-a-tete tea with the professional chaperon with a pleasurable expectation which was largely streaked with curiosity.
"These mean pilferers have become a perfect pest at the diggin's, an' we intend to stop their little game, we do, by stoppin' their windpipes when we catch them. Come, don't shilly-shally any longer, Paul Bevan. He's here, and no mistake, so you'd better hand him over. Besides, you owe us something, you know, for coming to your help agin the redskins in the nick of time."
That was what he meant when he gave her the last kiss. He had said so. He had called it the last kiss. But she poor lamb thought it was the last kiss till next time; that it was good-by for three weeks, not good-by forever. He must never see her again. There could be no two ways about that decision. He mustn't palter, or trifle, or shilly-shally about that iron certainty.
Yet she could do no more than say "I don't know yet." He moved away from her. "You'd better go away and leave me altogether," she said. "I won't do that. I can't." "I can say nothing else I don't know yet. You must give me time." "Ah, you mean 'yes'!" His voice grew assured again and joyful. She weighed the words in which she answered him. "No. If I meant yes, I'd say it. I wouldn't shilly-shally.
She is bitter against us for shilly-shallying. These girls hate shilly-shally in a man. They are monopolists severe monopolists; shilly-shally is one of their monopolies. Throw yourself at her feet, and press her with ardor; she will clear up directly." The proposed attitude did not tempt the stiff Talboys. His pride took the alarm. "Thank you.
"No shilly-shally with this gentleman; he is on the staff," Finot added for his uncle's benefit, as he grasped Lucien by the hand. "Oh! is he on the paper?" exclaimed Giroudeau, much surprised at this friendliness. "Well, sir, you came on without much difficulty." "I want to make things snug for you here, lest Etienne should bamboozle you," continued Finot, looking knowingly at Lucien.
What about the harm to me from all your theological shilly-shally? The only wonder of it all is that I was given the strength to come out of it and into something better. And now " Brenton stayed her torrent of words by the very quiet of his brief question. "Now, Katharine?" "Now I demand my right to go out and make what I can of the little you have left me of my life." "In what way?"
I dress like a gentleman, as I am; I have money in my pocket; I put money in yours; without me you'd starve. Look you, you carried over a little fortune to Australia you married you farmed you lived honestly, and yet that d -d shilly-shally disposition of yours, 'ticed into one speculation to-day, and scared out of another to-morrow, ruined you!" "Jerry!
Then the father continued, "Don't shilly-shally with her, whate'er ye do, unless ye are minded to have balking and kicking for the rest of your days. I took Matilda Mrs. Meredith by surprise once, and before she knew I was there I had her in my arms. And, egad! I never let her go, plead her best, till she gave me one of my kisses back. She began to take notice from that day.
I gasped, doubtful whether it would be wise to bring things to a crisis, or better to try and keep them simmering. But an instant's reflection told me that to shilly-shally with the man in this mood would make what was already bad far worse. "Yes, she gave it to him, of course," I replied. "I think you must have overheard him say so."
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