Henrys lieutenants were compelled to temporize and make concessions.
They did not falter, they did not dissemble, they did not temporize.
Unable to marry Stella without destroying Vanessa, or to openly welcome Vanessa without destroying Stella, he was ' thus involved in the most miserable embarrassment; he continued to temporize.
Accordingly he endeavoured to temporize and to avoid a rupture, to the archbishops great disgust.
This increased his anxiety to temporize, which he did with signal success for more than two years, making ' The grave doubt as to the paternity of Matthew involved a doubt whether the great earl of Tyrone and his equally famous nephew Owen Roe had in fact any O'Neill blood in their veins.
