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He has arranged to come twice, but on each occasion, at the last moment, he has made excuses. He can do as he likes now. I wish he would say definitely that he doesnt intend to come, instead of shilly-shallying from week to week. Hallo, Prentice, have the ladies returned yet?" This was addressed to the keeper of the gate-lodge, at which they had now arrived.
He had already had experience of this girl in one or two other cases. "Well," he said, taking up his hat, "it is no good shilly-shallying. I will go and find Dr. Swift." Dr. Swift was the parish doctor. When he had gone, the big husband broke down and cried, with his head against the iron of the bed close to his wife. He put his great hand on hers, and talked to her brokenly in their own patois.
Now, listen; there must be no shilly-shallying on your part; we want every true patriot to draw the sword for his country." "Ah well, I'm not what you call a true patriot, and so I shan't draw mine." "Bah!" ejaculated Drew. "And bah!" cried Frank. "Don't you play the fool, unless you want some one to hear you," he continued, in a warning whisper. "What do I care?
She's not beholden to me." "No," snapped Mrs. Gibson. "And why ain't she? Because you've been shilly-shallying along as though 'twas her business to pop the question. You men are getting nowadays so you can't do a thing for yourselves, you just hang back and leave us women to do it all." Thomas squirmed like an impaled beetle. "Guess I'd better go back into the store, Nellie.
"Now don't stand shilly-shallying and a-thinking and a-thinking, that never did anybody any good. I can't a-bear a man as thinks and thinks when there's anything to be done as plain as the nose in his face. Where's your bag?" Mrs. Carter was out of the room in an instant, and in ten minutes came back with a change of clothes. "Now, let us know where you are; but don't send your letters here.
He ceased his restless pacing, and waved his arms. "If she's going to come let her come!" he cried. "There's no use shilly-shallying this way! Whatever the worst is, let us know it and have it! A pretty pickle lost with a crazy chronometer and a hurricane that won't blow!" The cloud-mussed sky turned to a vague copper colour, and seemed to glow as the inside of a huge heated caldron.
There was a sense of weakness in following them by saying that she had just met her husband by appointment. "Then you would advise me not to communicate with him?" she observed. "I shall never advise ye again. You are your own mistress do as you like. But my opinion is that if you don't live with him, you had better live without him, and not go shilly-shallying and playing bopeep.
"And if you hesitate now," he said, vindictively, "I know the reason, and I know it is a reason you may as well put out of your mind. Oh, I am quite aware of the shilly-shallying that has been going on between you and that fellow Moore I know you've been struck, like all the rest of the women but you may as well give up that fancy. Mr. Moore isn't much of a catch, now!"
It was scarcely to be doubted that she would at once accept him, but there must be no half-measures, he would brook no shilly-shallying, he would not be played fast and loose with. She must either accept him fully and freely, and at once, or he would withdraw his offer, and in that case, or still more in the entirely improbable case of refusal, he would leave Bellevue Lodge forthwith.
I did know it all along, on'y I wouldn't let on." "Well, come, Jim," said Milly, determined to bring him to the point without any more of this shilly-shallying which was exceedingly unlike Jim; "you must tell me at once if you wish to do so, for I have an engagement, and shall have to leave you very soon."
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