without demur

She admitted him, therefore, without demur; and found he was a land surveyor, who had often been employed by Sir Hugh at Cleves.

To French readers this scene may seem a ghoulish farce: English humour accepts it from Norwegian humour without demur.

Grif, without demur, took a long draught, and wiped his lips upon the cuff of his ragged jacket.

We repeat: the story is not true, though both Nohl and Wasielewski accepted it without demur.

Without demur the two old boys fell naturally into the rle of former days.