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His strikes seemed uglier than other people's and singularly hopeless always with something in them a kind of secret obstinate something in them, he kept trying in vain to make out.
Surprise, gratitude, shame, anxiety, long expectation at last satisfied; a remnant of haughtiness which felt its defeat certain; an obstinate incredulity forced to surrender; the disorder of an imagination, enchanted, rapt, distracted, the delights of hope and the bitterness of memory; all these appeared upon his face, and formed a melange so confused that to see him thus laughing and crying at once, it seemed as if it was his joy which wept and his sadness which smiled.
The three were necessarily noticed by their neighbours as they passed out. Mrs. Farnaby discovered Phoebe when it was too late. Mr. Farnaby happened to look first at the old woman. Sixteen years of squalid poverty effectually disguised her, in that dim light. He only looked away again, and said to his wife impatiently, "Let us go too!" Mrs. Farnaby was still obstinate.
He doated on this obstinate, pretty, wilful child of his the only girl, and whose temper was the very facsimile of his own. 'It's you're hurting me most, Netta, by rushing into certain misery. Will you promise? Again he took hold of the arm. 'One would think you were a Papist, father, and this the Inquisition, said Netta, growing learned under the torture of her father's grasp,
"Harvey is as obstinate about such things as a dumb beast; one would think the care I took of his bedridden father might learn him better than to despise good nursing. But some day he may know what it is to want a careful woman in his house, though now I am sure he is too despisable himself to have a house."
Christian is firm, decided, bold, and sanguine. Obstinate is profane, scornful, self-sufficient, and contemns God's Word. Objection. If I would run as you would have me, then I must run from all my friends, for none of them are running that way. Answ. And if thou dost, thou wilt run into the bosom of Christ, and of God. And what harm will that do thee? Objec.
But when, encouraged by this, her visitor diverged to Margaret Brandt, Catherine's eyes dried, and her lips turned to half the size, and she looked as only obstinate, ignorant women can look. When they put on this cast of features, you might as well attempt to soften or convince a brick wall. Margaret Van Eyck tried, but all in vain.
'I fear she is obstinate', he had said to himself, and then he had half accused her of being sullen also. 'If that be her temper, what a life of misery I have before me! 'Have you fixed a day yet? his aunt asked him as they came near to her house. 'No, not yet; I don't know whether it will suit me to fix it before I leave. 'Why, it was but the other day you were in such a hurry.
'Wat fool you were! so disobedient and obstinate; if you 'ad done wat I say, then we should av been quaite safe; those persons they were tipsy, and there is nothing so dangerous as to quarrel with tipsy persons; I would 'av brought you quaite safe the lady she seem so nice and quaite, and we should 'av been safe with her there would 'av been nothing absolutely; but instead you would scream and pooshe, and so they grow quite wild, and all the impertinence and violence follow of course; and that a poor Bill all his beating and danger to his life it is cause entairely by you.
"Well, we must ask her how she gets work, for certainly she lives by her labor." "You are right. She will tell us all about it; and when we know, Dagobert may scold us, or try to make great ladies of us, but we will be as obstinate as he is." "That is it; we must show some spirit! We will prove to him, as he says himself, that we have soldier's blood in our veins."
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