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Pao-yue had already awoke. He asked the reason why she had been called away, but Hsi Jen temporised by giving him an evasive answer. And only at night, when every one was quiet, did Hsi Jen at length give him a full account of the whole matter. Pao-yue was delighted beyond measure. "I'll see now," he said, with a face beaming with smiles, "whether you'll go back home or not.
There were other difficulties, trivial in appearance, harassing, vexatious, insurmountable in reality, that yet seemed from day to day about to vanish; so they waited, and temporised, and hesitated, till the opportunity came of escaping together, and they availed themselves of it without delay. Now they had reached French ground, and were free, but it was too late! That was why Mr.
"I can't make out the title," he temporised, shaking his head, and letting his eyeglass drop. On the whole, it was very well acted; and I hope the occult little smile that played about the Duchessa's lips was a smile of appreciation. "It has a highly appropriate title," she said. "It is called 'A Man of Words, by an author I've never happened to hear of before, named Felix Wildmay." "Oh, yes.
The Church is goin' to rack and ruin, and we ain't goin' to stand it no longer. Even the disreputable characters will walk right in and stay all through the sermon Andy Rogers and the rest. And I was particularly requested to ask whether you wished to have us understand that you approve of Andy Rogers and his goin's on." "What," temporised Thorpe, "does Andy Rogers do?"
"Press-gang be d d!" he growled, answering the virago's call of warning. "More likely a spree ashore. And where might you come from, young gentleman? And what might be your business to-night, breakin' into a private house?" I cast a wild look over the bevy of forbidding females and temporised, backing a little until my shoulder felt the door-post behind me.
But his constitutional irresoluteness obstructed his path continually; brain-sick, weak of will, emotional, timid even, he temporised, procrastinated, brooded; came to decisions in the dark hours of the night, only to abandon them in the morning. Once only he had ACTED. And at this moment, as he was carried through the windy, squalid streets, he trembled at the remembrance of it.
Mingled with the swift appreciation of the humour of himself as tutor to the arrogant Vassie was a pang of reproachful conscience. "What does your mother say?" he temporised; "and Vassie?" "Mother's willen, only she did say you was so took up with the lil'un you wouldn't take no account of Vassie, seeing she'm only a bastard like the rest of us.
Reaction! What else?" "But reaction. What do you hope to do?" "Stop it!" cried the young man from Oxford. "Before it is too late." "But " "It's not impossible," cried the young man from Oxford, with a jump in his voice. "We want the firm hand; we want the subtle plan, the resolute mind. We have been mealy-mouthed and weak-handed; we have trifled and temporised and the Food has grown and grown.
Juliette and Albert the two last representatives of an old nobility long-famed in the annals of the west might well fall in love with each other. It would be charming, Madame thought; but, alas! Albert would be wise to look for a dot. The Marquis paused. Again he temporised. For he could not all in an instant decide which side of this question to take.
She waited three minutes, and the Cresslers still failing to appear, temporised yet further, for the twentieth time repeating: "I don't see I can't understand." Then, abruptly drawing her cape about her, she crossed the vestibule and came up to Jadwin. As she approached she saw him catch her eye.
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