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Marshal Oudinot was not as strong as his opponent and should have temporised, but the habit of advancing, the sight of the steeples of Berlin and the fear of not living up to the confidence Napoleon reposed in him, led him to push forward Bertrand's corps, which was repulsed, a setback which did not prevent Oudinot from persisting in his aim of taking Berlin.
He was the less excusable, because his long tenure of office had taught him something, at all events, of 'the Way. He had too many crimes to venture on raising enemies in his government; he had too much lingering sense of justice to give up an innocent man. So like all weak men in difficult positions he temporised, and trusted to accident to make the right thing easier for him.
He had begun to suspect who his accusers were, and felt alarmed, for he was now conscious of secret subterranean plotting, a great stealthy effort to strike him down and suppress his work. All that surrounded him became suspicious. If he listened to advice and temporised, it was solely to follow the same politic course as his adversaries, to learn to know them before acting.
"Don't run away," he said; "sister-in-law Lien has already reported your conduct to madame Wang; and explained that you had tried to make her carry on an improper flirtation with you; that she had temporised by having recourse to a scheme to escape your importunities, and that she had imposed upon you in such a way as to make you wait for her in this place.
If Jesus had shrunk from the full consequences of His actions; if He had temporised, concealed Himself, tried to gain time, or adopted any other subterfuge or expedient in order to save His life that life would not have the moral power it possesses or shine with such glorious lustre in the world to-day.
The Bishop had taken that ground from under him by a simple stroke of truth. He could neither go forward with his charge nor could he retract it. "Would you be so kind, then, as to tell this committee," he temporised, "just why you wished to arouse this opposition to the railroad?" "There is not and has never been any opposition whatever to the railroad," said the Bishop.
"They may be here any minute." Rowland and his wife looked at each other. Neither spoke a word; but at last the woman shook her head slowly. Hans Mueller shifted restlessly. "Hurry, I tell you," he insisted. Rowland sat down again deliberately, his heavy double chin folding over his soft flannel shirt. "Where are you going?" he temporised with almost a shade of amusement. "Going!"
I felt I had been wanting in tact; also that I had put myself through an impetuosity foreign to what I had thought to be my character in a foolish position. If I replied affirmatively to her question, she would have served me perfectly right by tossing her head in the air and marching indignantly out of the room. I temporised.
Mary temporised, which was perhaps the best thing possible for the Reformers if not for herself, and promised to take order, to regulate matters for their advantage so soon as it was possible, when she should have concluded various matters of more importance that were in hand, such, for instance, as that of awarding the crown matrimonial to her daughter's husband the young King of France, to whom all earthly distinctions were soon to matter so little.
He was going to goad them into asserting and maintaining their independence of his enemies, the Gentiles. The inspiration of this thought nerved him anew. Though they all died, to the last child, he would live to carry back to Zion the message that now burned within him. They had temporised with the Gentile and had grown lax among themselves.
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