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Money enough to make you independently wealthy for the rest of your life money you didn't know the existence of, two weeks ago fed to you by a gratuitous providence. A legacy is a legacy, and deserves to be treated as such, and I propose to see that it gets what it deserves, without any more shilly-shallying."
And through it all there was the strange girlish pride that this should have befallen her; a first crude intoxicating sense of the power over human lives which was to be hers, mingled with a desperate anxiety to be equal to the occasion, to play her part well. The undergraduates regard me as a shilly-shallying pedant. On my part, he added drily, 'I am not slow to retaliate.
She was quickly mounted, and they set off, the girl so helpless in her fright that Evatt had to hold her horse's bridle as well as his own. "Burn it!" exclaimed Evatt, presently, "art never going to end thy weeping?" "If you would only have waited till " sobbed Janice. "'T was no time for shilly-shallying," interrupted the man.
Still two days of shilly-shallying on the part of the mayor ensued, delaying a formal surrender, until Farragut, who had no fancy for nonsense, sharply put a stop to it, and New Orleans, in form and substance, passed under Northern control. On April 28 the two forts, isolated by what had taken place, surrendered.
Rogers was shilly-shallying: what if he delayed too long and Polly slipped through his hands? Lose Polly? Good God! the very thought turned him cold. And alive to his finger-tips with the superstition of his race, he impetuously offered up his fondest dream to those invisible powers that sat aloft, waiting to be appeased.
Some wonderful chance ... Mr. Twist's spectacles suddenly went dim, and he gulped down more water. Yes. That was the line to take: the austere line of self-mortification for the Twinkler good. One Twinkler would be his wife again at the dear word he had to gulp down water and one his sister-in-law. They would just have to agree to this plan. The position was too serious for shilly-shallying. Yes.
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.
To speak truth, I am in no good-humor with him or with his unhandsome shilly-shallying, and unaccountable postponement of what became a duty months ago. Never mind! this also will come right when Roger returns. The delightful stir and hubbub in my soul hinder me from working or reading, or any tranquil in-door occupation; and, as afternoon draws on, fair and not cold, I decide upon a long walk.
"After all the money has been wasted!" "I have only got things that I must have had very soon." "If you have got anything to say you had better talk to your father. I know nothing about it" "You break my heart when you say that, mamma." "You think nothing about breaking mine; or that young man's who is behaving so well to you. What makes me mad is to see you shilly-shallying with him."
"Then I shall!" Royal said, with sudden feeling. "I'm sick of this shilly-shallying, and weighing words! If he will accept me as I am, well and good if not, I'm done! But he has a high opinion of you, Harriet; what you say really counts!" "You know where I stand," she could only repeat. They had reached the garden now, and were at the foot of the steps.
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