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Bonaparte, indeed, in his despatches to the Directory, stated that the Senate had instigated the insurrection; but that was not quite correct, and he could not wholly believe his own assertion. Pending the vacillation of the Venetian Senate, Vienna was exciting the population of its States on the mainland to rise against the French.
The appearance of vacillation on his part from day to day was hardly deserving of the grave censure which it received, and was certainly in the interests of humanity. His conferences with Sully were almost daily and marked by intense anxiety.
"I'm afraid of making any promises I mightn't be able to keep." Man's vacillation is Fate's determination, and Miss Harden was as firm as Fate. He felt that the fine long hands playing with the catalogue were shaping events for him, while her eyes measured him with their meditative gaze. "I must risk that," she said.
Roland Graeme compelled himself to walk on while they were within sight of each other that his former intimate might not augur any vacillation of purpose, or uncertainty of object, from his remaining on the same spot; but the effort was a painful one.
Yet in his hopeless vacillation it seemed a relief that now neither was practicable, and that he need do nothing. Perhaps it was a mysterious providence! The explanation, however, was much simpler. The horse had been taken by the luxurious and indolent Billings unknown to his companions.
"The slight value you place upon it may detract but little from my objection," said I. "Sacré ciel!" exclaimed he, in a louder voice, as he sprang from the bed and clasped his hands before him. "Is it to be ever thus? Is every step we take to be marred by some unlooked for casualty? Is the stamp of fear and vacillation to be on every act of our lives?
That is the justification for drawing the members of a Cabinet from the leaders of a single party, who think alike and understand one another's minds. Whenever this condition has been absent, confusion, vacillation and contradiction have always marked the conduct of public affairs, and disastrous results have followed.
When I see newspaper articles beginning with the preamble that the problem of India is altogether outside party questions, I well know from experience that this is too often apt to be the forerunner of a regular party attack. It is said that there has been supineness, vacillation and hesitation.
He has been more thoughtful; and all the old vacillation is gone." The countess-dowager could not understand at all; neither did she believe; and she only stared at Maude. "His not coming down with me is a proof that he exercises his own will now. I wished him to come very much, and he knew it; but you see he has not done so." "And what do you say is keeping him?" repeated the countess-dowager.
Though struck to the heart, he would not decide, he struggled on against God. But he was no longer the same man; his mind showed its vacillation.
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