You are deciding what to do. Why on earth should you hesitate? He is a gentleman--he loves you!" and then to Lucy's relief she suddenly threw on her hat and rushed off for a walk. Miss Dunbar painted the priest's robe yellow, in her agitation. But the agitation was not deep. There really seemed no reason why she should hesitate. He would be kind; he was well-bred and agreeable. A princess?英文原著 · 《Frances Waldeaux》
He hesitated; yes, he absolutely hesitated, impressed by the idea that for him she was ready to sacrifice position and honor, that he had but to raise his finger and she was his, and that in the space of a couple of hours she might be the companion of his flight to some far-distant land. His pulse throbbed madly, and he could scarcely draw his breath, when some fifty paces down the road he caught sight of the figure of a man; it was his father. This was the second time that the Duke by his mere presence had spread the web of Diana's temptations and allurements.英文原著 · 《The Champdoce Mystery》
He went to the man's stall, found him standing with his child in his arms and blew out his brains. He blundered against a passer-by in the road and shot him. Those are his feats. Sometimes his pistols go off in the bazaar just by accident." "Does nobody kill him?" "I wanted to," said Benham and became thoughtful for a time. "I think I ought to have made some sort of quarrel. But then as I am an Englishman he might have hesitated. He would have funked a strange beast like me. And I couldn't have shot him if he had hesitated.英文原著 · 《The Research Magnificent》
However, out of caution, I walked round the house, as if taking a stroll. Passing Princess Mary's windows, I again heard steps behind me; a man wrapped in a cloak ran by me. That rendered me uneasy, but I crept up to the flight of steps, and hastily mounted the dark staircase. A door opened, and a little hand seized mine. "Nobody has seen you?" said Vera in a whisper, clinging to me. "Nobody."
"Now do you believe that I love you? I have long hesitated, long tortured myself. But you can do anything you like with me."
Her heart was beating violently, her hands were cold as ice.英文原著 · 《A Hero of Our Time》
"Well," hesitated Sara, "I don't think it would be good if they stayed always, but I do believe they will be satisfying."英文原著 · 《A Little Princess》
She knew she need not hesitate to use the little piece of money. It had evidently been lying in the mud for some time, and its owner was completely lost in the stream of passing people who crowded and jostled each other all day long.英文原著 · 《A Little Princess》
And I hesitate to bring up what I know you already know, but I want to hear it from you, now that the smoke has cleared that you will not say a word about my role in the IPO.美剧 · 《Billions》
If it were me and I were standing as naked as Paris Hilton and twice as fucked, I would not hesitate.美剧 · 《Billions》
Some might even be more loyal to him than to you-- and wouldn't hesitate to lash out at little ol' me.美剧 · 《Billions》