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"By George! it makes my blood boil, Vernon, as I think of it now. How could I succeed out there when those nincompoops at home in the Ministry did not want me to do anything but play their miserable shilly-shally game of drifting with the tide and doing nothing!
Outside, at the pump, a lounging hostler, who had been bribed to keep a sharp lookout for a Shaker wagon, whistled and waited too. "Tell you what," said Hiram, bolting a goodly rouleau of ham and eggs, "I've got an idee. You and me might shilly-shally here on this road all day, and what surety shall we hev' that they hevn't gone by the other road. Old gal said there was two?"
But the paper was not explicit enough, and must be re-written: and so the foolish shilly-shally went on and he guilty all the time and at last he evaded them all, and went back again to Holland.
What can make the man shilly-shally in this way! He is convinced already, as he knows those later letters were conclusive! His living, perhaps, and hid work! Not for the money's sake, there never was a more incredibly disinterested person born. But his work? Well, who is to hinder his work? Will he be the first parson in the Church of England who looks after the poor and holds his tongue?
There's not much shilly-shally about me. For that matter, I made up my mind long ago " "Oh, but you really haven't known me very long," she suggested. "It can't be more than a month since Mark went to Paris." "I wish," said the colonel, "he had gone to Hades!" "I know you are horridly jealous," she continued, "because you always change the subject when I mention his name.
Why, our banns are to be cried to-morrow; come to church and hear 'em; that will learn ye not to shilly-shally so next time." "Next time!" cried Drake, half blubbering; then, with a sudden roar, "what, be you coming to market again, arter this?" "Like enough: he is a deal older than I be. 'Tis Mr. Meyrick, if ye must know." Now Mr. Meyrick was well-to-do, and so Drake was taken aback. "Mr.
She gave a flounce that made her petticoats whisk like a mare's tail, and off to the kitchen, where she related the dialogue with an appropriate reflection, the company containing several of either sex. "Dilly-Dally and Shilly-Shally, they belongs to us as women be. I hate and despise a man as can't make up his mind in half a minnut." So the widow Gosport became Mrs.
I noted in my diary: "The Powers are making a damned mess of everything by their shilly-shally. . . . What rot it is for five Powers to be spending the Lord knows what on these warships, admirals, soldiers, etc. hanging about Scutari while the people up-country are dying of hunger." The suffering in the burnt villages was terrible.
Then bring him and his lad to my poor wench's side, and see their troth plighted, or lay him by the heels in the lowest cell in your dungeon. Then will you do good service to the King and the Duke of York, whom you talk of loving in your shilly-shally fashion."
His aim was to progress slowly but solidly, without splurge or notoriety, so that every one might regard him as a man of sound dispassionate judgment, and solid, keen understanding. His especial antipathy was for so-called cranks people who went off at half-cock, who thought nothing out, but were governed by the impulse of the moment, shilly-shally and controlled by sentimentality.
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