p-p-persuade

Updated: June 23, 2025

Having stalked indignantly onward for a few paces, the doctor discovered that his wife had not followed him, and turning he called savagely: "Pepeeta, come! It is folly to try and p-p-persuade him. Let us leave the saint to his prayers! But let him remember the old p-p-proverb, 'young saint, old sinner! Come!"

Charles Frederic Goss - The Redemption of David Corson