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He would shilly-shally no longer, even though he had to toss the cursed thing up on a house step. He let the parcel slip lower down on his arm, with one finger crooked through the string that tied it together.
"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.
Ronald turned white to the lips, but his reply came as unwavering as the last. "Do you think you would care to hear even the finest poetry in the world read aloud to-night? Mine is very far from the best. I will read it to you if you wish, but you must give me a happier opportunity." Agnes laughed shortly. "Shilly-shally! I can't understand what opportunity you want.
She was not a woman weakly to accommodate herself to shilly-shally proceedings. If the season didn't know what it ought to do, Mrs. Hackit did. In her best days, it was always sharp weather at 'Gunpowder Plot', and she didn't like new fashions.
You'll be deceived and robbed of your money, you'll be lost in fact. But married to him you're the wife of a distinguished man. Look at him on the other hand. Though I've provided for him, if I die what will become of him I But I could trust him to you. Stay, I've not finished. He's frivolous, shilly-shally, cruel, egoistic, he has low habits.
"I do' know. Is anything?" "I've just been talking with him, and he seemed sort of skittish and dissatisfied and paradoxical." "He's often like that. We never notice." "He seemed to shilly-shally considerable too. Has he got any convictions, any principles?" "I can't say I've ever thought much about that. He never mentions such things himself, but I suppose he must have them about him somewhere.
That good lady always mean what she say, and what she do too," and he dabbed wrathfully at the scratches made by the lion's claws on his face, then added, "She know her own mind, not like shilly-shally, see-saw white woman, who get up one thing and go to bed another. If she love she love, if she hate she hate.
"Once more, Helena" he said, in a voice that shook "is there no chance for me?" "No, no, dear Peter!" she cried, stretching out her hands to him. "Oh, I thought that was all over. I sent for you because I wanted just to say to you don't trifle! don't shilly-shally! I know Jenny Dumbarton a little. She's charming she's got a delicate, beautiful character and such a warm heart!
To what extent the insane and disastrous policy which led to the war with America by its shilly-shally treatment of Cuba, now promising autonomy, now putting down the grinding heel of tyranny, and to what extent the suicidal action of the oscillating parties for both share the responsibility in their instructions to their generals and admirals, and the astounding unpreparedness for war of any kind, still less with a country like America, may be traced to this system of "arrangements," which allows one party to hand its responsibilities over to the other, one can only guess.
Your folks, confronted by the endless problem of choosing their own country and century, their own family and their own religion, will dilly-dally and shilly-shally and put off birth so long that they will never change their condition at all. They will come to the conviction that it is better not to be born; better to bear the evils that they know than fly to others that they know not of.
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