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Thorpe observed his companion, through a blue haze of smoke, in silence. This insistence upon the un-English nature of the effect he produced was not altogether grateful to his ears. "The other one," continued Plowden, "is Lady Cressage. You'll be interested in her because a few years ago she was supposed to be the most beautiful woman in London.
I can't attend to you properly if you do, and I shall probably spill blood over you and make a beastly mess." Again his insistence carried the day. Olga bandaged the torn hand without a murmur. "And now," said Dr. Max Wyndham, "tell me what you did it for!" She looked at him then with quick defiance.
More than once of late, as she noticed her son's growing pallor and loss of spirits, she had asked herself whether she were not doing wrong in seeking to turn him aside from the life for which he longed; and now that he was finding fresh and fatal objections to the occupation he had chosen in deference to her wishes, she began to relent of her insistence, and to feel more disposed to discuss the question again.
The curtains were rosy with lamp-light, and conscience awoke in the languors of convalescent hours. 'I stood on the verge of death! The whisper died away. John was still very weak, and he had not strength to think with much insistence, but now and then remembrance surprised him suddenly like pain; it came unexpectedly, he knew not whence or how, but he could not choose but listen.
She was not ashamed, not in the least; but her ardent desire to prove her fitness for that coveted profession, together with the compelling insistence of that persuasive voice, prompted her to hold out a reluctant hand and to smile. "You are a darling child!" said Captain Phipps, with a level glance of approval. "I shall see you to-morrow. When? Where?" But she would make no engagement.
While the investigator was speaking to the sergeant, one of the alert-looking young men approached. "Pardon," said he. "But is there anything you'd like to say to the Star?" "No," replied Ashton-Kirk. "You are working on the Hume case, are you not?" asked the reporter with professional insistence. "Oh, I have had a little interest in it as an outsider, that is all," returned the other.
The atmosphere of L'Assomption was intensely conservative, and both priests and fellow-pupils were inclined to give short shrift to the dangerous radicalism of the brilliant young student from St Lin. A debating society had been formed, largely at his insistence.
Indeed, she impressed him as one who was superior to that petty disturbance of collected thought. Somehow it seemed to him, as she stood there looking down at him, that he, too, should be standing. But she put forth a hand with gentle insistence when he made as though to rise. What an exquisite face, he thought. Against the whiteness of her skin her lips burned like poppy petals.
Her face paled; she glanced towards the Hill of Healing. "He's got an hour's start," she said; "he'll get into the mountains and be safe." "If they don't catch him 'fore that." "Or if you don't get to him first," she said, with nervous insistence. He turned to her with a hard look; then, as he met her soft, fearless, beautiful eyes, his own grew gentle. "It takes a lot of doing.
The King himself stood immovable as a figure of bronze, his eyes resting upon her with a deep insistence of purpose, as though he sought to wrest some further confession from her soul. The tension between them was painful, almost intolerable, and though it lasted but a minute, that minute seemed weighted with the potentialities of years.
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