"I won't send for him.

No, I won't!" The most vigorous expression of a resolution does not always coincide with the greatest vigour of the resolution itself.

It is often flung out as a sort of prop to support a decaying conviction which, whilst strong, required no enunciation to prove it so.

The "No, I won't" of Bathsheba meant virtually, "I think I must." She followed her assistants through the gate, and lifted her hand to one of them.

Laban answered to her signal.
"Where is Oak staying ?" "Across the valley at Nest Cottage!" "Jump on the bay mare, and ride across, and say he must return instantly--that I say so." Tall scrambled off to the field, and in two minutes was on Poll, the bay, bare-backed, and with only a halter by way of rein.