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"Walpole," says Burke, "never manfully put forward the strength of his cause; he temporized; he managed; and, adopting very nearly the sentiments of his adversaries, he opposed their inferences. This, for a political commander, is the choice of a weak post. His adversaries had the best of the argument as he handled it; not as the reason and justice of his cause enabled him to manage it."
"What are we going to have?" I asked him. "A healthy young slip of a gale from the breath iv it, sir," he answered, "with a splatter iv rain just to wet our gills an' no more." "Too bad we sighted them," I said, as the Ghost's bow was flung off a point by a large sea and the boat leaped for a moment past the jibs and into our line of vision. Louis gave a spoke and temporized.
Plainly it did, to judge by the eloquence of Franz's eyes and his joyous smile. With quick speech he responded. "He say," reported Louis, "he vant to vork for you. No wagees till he plees you. He do anyting. You van' heem?" "Well, I'll have to think about that," Burns temporized. "But tell him not to worry. We'll find a job before we let him go.
And as he had not the faintest doubt that technically as well as essentially he had right on his side, he pressed the matter vigorously. Austrian diplomacy, dense and dilatory as ever, argued, protested, temporized.
"To think," she began, "to think he should escape, after being over there over there, John, in blood and dirt and death and come home to be shot in the back by a tramp with a gun! Where is the man? You detained him, didn't you? Don't tell me you let him go." "I know where to find him," Raven temporized. "He'd no idea of going." She insisted. "You think it was an accident?
If you don't believe that now, you will very shortly, after you try it alone." Brookings, caught in his duplicity and half-convinced of the truth of DuQuesne's statements, still temporized. "You're modest, aren't you, Doctor?" he asked, smiling. "Modest? No," said the other calmly. "Modesty never got anybody anything but praise, and I prefer something more substantial.
"But," he persisted, "it really amounts to this that you decide whether or not Miss Manning wishes to receive me, or any other visitor." Mrs. Bates found the point of view novel. Moreover, she liked this young man's smile. She hesitated, and temporized. "If you don't mind waitin' a minute till I telephone " she said. "Certainly. Say that Mr.
At the worst, he had only temporized with the issue perhaps had lost sight of it altogether and he would be shocked to learn of the consequences of his procrastination. He himself could postpone his call on Miss Weyland till to-morrow, leaving West to go to-night. Of course, however, nothing his former chief could do now would change the fact that Miss Weyland herself had doubted him.
He therefore temporized, and protracted the negotiation, until he was alarmed at the progress of the Spanish arms in Italy, and fixed in his determination by the subsidies of Great Britain. The Spanish army assembled at Rimini under the duke de Montemar; and being joined by the Neapolitan forces, amounted to sixty thousand men, furnished with a large train of artillery.
"My dear child," temporized Lady Margaret, eyebrows raised in protest at this outburst, "of course, it shall be as you wish. I only thought ..." But Mary Trevert was not listening. She leant on the mantel-shelf, her dark head in her hands, and she murmured: "The tragedy of it! My God, the tragedy of it!" Lady Margaret twisted the rings on her long white fingers.
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