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I ain't a Fenian nor yet a Guy Fawkes, daughter, and in consequence I'm free to confess I don't care for all this damn mystery and shilly-shallying. But that's the message." Miss Hugonin debated with herself. "That I will do nothing further in the matter till Billy gets well," she repeated, reflectively.
George, you've been very considerate but come along at once, and don't let us have any more arguing or shilly-shallying. You give me hold of your hand, Boy thank you, George, an arm up the hill is just what I wanted!" So they set off up the hill arm-in-arm, the Saint, the Dragon, and the Boy.
I lost no time for in love or war shilly-shallying is unknown among the blacks but boldly leaped down into the hollow armed only with a reed whistle, which I had made for myself solely with the view of enticing the snakes from their holes. I cast a triumphant glance at my impassive rival, who, up to this moment, had not the faintest idea what the proposed ordeal was.
"My wife and my four children; if I get myself turned out of this jail how am I to find bread for that small lot?" "And do you think shilly-shallying between two stools will secure your seat? You have gone too far with me to retract; don't you see that the jailer means to get you dismissed the next time the justices visit the jail for business? Can't you read your fate in the man's eye?"
"Humph!" said Tomlinson; "and what is to become of us? Really, my captain, your sense of duty should lead you to exert yourself; your friends starve before your eyes, while you are shilly-shallying about your mistress. Have you no bowels for friendship?" "A truce with this nonsense!" said Clifford, angrily. "It is sense, sober sense, and sadness too," rejoined Tomlinson.
He considered his son Howard's quiet strength weakness. "You have no stamina," he would say. "You have no moral fiber. For God's sake, make a stand, you fellows, and stick to it." He had not mellowed with age. He viewed with endless bitterness the passing of his own day and generation, and the rise to power of younger men; with their "shilly-shallying," he would say.
"I'm one for quick work and no shilly-shallying," he said. "And I have Mick's word for it. He's signed a paper. I'll take care to get myself and you into no trouble, but I must have the children at once. Now listen, Mick. I'll be here to-morrow morning at say eight well, nine o'clock, with the money.
Now the young man who loved Miss I mean Lady Katherine was a sort of wild proposition. Old man wouldn't have him around the place; but young man kept hanging on till Earl ordered him off. Finally the old gent locked Lady Kitty in the donjon tower," said Mr. Hobson. "Too much shilly-shallying in this generation," he went on. "Every house that's got a pretty girl ought to have a donjon keep.
But if you resolve to push your fortunes among brave and lofty comrades, stirring scenes, and brisk adventures, meet me at six to-morrow evening, at the place where you chopped down my rails. All you want will be provided, and your course of promotion begins at once. But remember, all must be honour bright. No shilly-shallying, no lukewarmness, no indifference to a noble cause.
"Oh, yes," said Staniford, gravely. "Most women, I believe, are so innocent as to think a man in love when he behaves like a lover. And this one," he added ruefully, "seems more than commonly ignorant of our ways, of our infernal shilly-shallying, purposeless no-mindedness.
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