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I have friends, good friends, like you, Dr. Seward." This was said with a leer of inexpressible cunning. "I know that I shall never lack the means of life!" I think that through the cloudiness of his insanity he saw some antagonism in me, for he at once fell back on the last refuge of such as he, a dogged silence. After a short time I saw that for the present it was useless to speak to him.
'Carry it into the city; to Cross, in Broad Street, and leave it there quick. Do you hear? Newman gave a dogged kind of nod to express an affirmative reply, and, leaving the room for a few seconds, returned with his hat.
But, if one man is worthy of special mention for cool bravery, for dogged perseverance, for unflinching, unwavering fortitude and unselfishness, that man is Guy Chutney. Gentlemen," he continued, raising his glass, "I ask you to drink with me to the health of the bravest man I ever met Guy Chutney."
Thus supported, he can have his fits of abstraction, his headaches, his heartaches, his exultations, his depressions, and no harm done; his dogged associate will plow steadily on all the time. So, after all, your requiring capital is no great misfortune; you must look out for a working capitalist.
I needn't have had it. It was all my own obstinacy and a sort of dogged feeling that made me feel I couldn't give in. I believe it done me good, though. I do really think I should have gone mad else, thinking of the dreadful long months and years that lay before me without a chance of getting out. Sometimes I'd take a low fit and refuse my food, and very near give up living altogether.
His horse stood dejectedly. When Brower had made fast the latigo, the horse as such dispirited animals often do heaved a deep sigh. Something snapped beneath the slight strain of the indrawn breath. "Dogged if your cinch ain't busted!" cried Meigs with a loud laugh. "Lucky for you your friend did borrow your saddle!
The young man, gifted as he was with the keenest susceptibilities, perceived this, and his head drooped. "I shall add nothing to and take nothing from what I have said," was his dogged remark. "Make of it what you will." The inspector who was conducting the inquiry glanced dubiously at Mr.
The latter's attempt to force a fast pace made King uncomfortable, for a fair percentage of the multitudinous blows showered upon him went home. Yet King persisted in his dogged slowness, despite the crying of the young hot-heads for him to go in and fight.
He had called the big clump of azaleas "the burning bush." ... He had always been a funny little chap. And it was in the garden that he had said good-bye to him that last time. He had been twice wounded, and it was hard to go back again. There was no novelty about it now, no eagerness or burning zeal, nothing but a dogged determination to see the thing through.
Before I departed, I received the twenty pounds, and departed with a light heart to my lodgings. Reader, amidst the difficulties and dangers of this life, should you ever be tempted to despair, call to mind these latter chapters of the life of Lavengro. There are few positions, however difficult, from which dogged resolution and perseverance may not liberate you.
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