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He would have been delighted if some way had come to help him, but he could not bring himself to such a curious investigation of his poor affairs as his mother would have had him make with prying inquiries. It seemed to him that such a course would be impertinent, and so, whenever she suggested it, he temporized and hesitated.
Do I correctly understand you, Captain Passford?" demanded the privateersman with a frown upon his brow. "Undoubtedly you do. I decline to give you my sealed orders. What then?" replied the commander, who began to feel a certain sense of shame because he had temporized so long with the bold pirate, for he regarded him as such. "What then?" repeated the intruder.
They eyed each other a moment. "Where do you want to go?" temporized Florence. "Anywhere, so it's with you." "You don't want to stay long?" "I'll come back whenever you say." Florence rolled down her sleeves and sighed with assumed regret. "I ought to stay here and work." "I'll help you when we come back, if you like." "Very well." She said it hesitatingly. "All right.
But into the memory of the tired voice he had loved there clashed the King's harsh question so curtly asked in Valmy, and torn by the conflict of the two natures warring within him Commines paced the room in silence. La Mothe was not the only man in Amboise who found his skill as a circus-rider tried to the utmost, and like La Mothe Commines temporized. "Who are we to judge the King?"
"I heard you give it to the clerk just now." "And why," she inquired with what she intended to be withering sarcasm, "have I been selected so suddenly for this important work?" "I heard the address you gave, that's why," he answered. "That's what makes it so important that you should go to that number at once. Ask for Mr. Fleck." "I can't go," she temporized.
And regarding "the brother marquis" with a stately eye that silenced and awed retort, the long-descended Montagu passed the courtiers, and rode slowly on till out of sight of the palace; he then pushed into a hand-gallop, and halted not till he had reached London, and gained the house in which then dwelt the Earl of Oxford, the most powerful of all the Lancastrian nobles not in exile, and who had hitherto temporized with the reigning House.
The reason I can bear to kill deer is because, to kill deer, you must accomplish a skillful elimination of the obvious." My young lady was evidently afraid of being considered stupid; and also convinced of her inability to understand what I was driving at. So she temporized in the manner of society. "I see," she said, with an air of complete enlightenment. Now of course she did not see.
The hot blood of the Bonapartes boiled at this underhand dealing, and he at once despatched Colonel Desprez to Napoleon to demand Soult's instant recall. The Emperor, who was then at Moscow, temporized.
He did what might perhaps have been expected from that pale eye and receding chin he temporized. He said to himself, "Before that horrible trial comes on, I shall be the house of Wardlaw, and able to draw a check for thousands. I'll buy off Adams at any price, and hush up the whole matter." So he hoped, and hoped.
And he pronounced the word "anti-physical" as though it were a malediction. The priest knew who his enemy was, but as he wished to remain ruler of the chateau and of Jeanne, he temporized, sure of final victory. He was also haunted by a fixed idea. He had discovered by chance the amours of Julien and Gilberte, and he desired to put a stop to them at all costs.
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