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"Oh no, you won't!" returned the prince. "Yes, I will," she persisted. "What business had you to pull me down out of the water, and throw me to the bottom of the air? I never did you any harm." "Pardon me. I did not mean to hurt you." "I don't believe you have any brains; and that is a worse loss than your wretched gravity. I pity you."

"But yes, surely, sometimes," she admitted. "Does it fall always through the window every day?" "But yes, surely, if it is in the right place." The community's sunbeam sighed. "Does it fall on flowers and on boys and girls?" he persisted. "But yes, it falls on everything that is near." A look of pained surprise dawned upon the features of Ivan Ivanovitch. "Always?" he asked, quickly.

"I am afraid you are giving me far more credit than is my due," Katherine replied, releasing her hand and flushing as she read something of what was passing in his mind. "I simply did what first came to my thought and " "And exactly the right thing it was to do," the man smilingly interposed. "And Dr. Stanley did the rest," she persisted, finishing what had been in her mind to say.

It is impossible not to admire the steadiness and ingenuity with which the Prince persisted in his plans, the courage with which he bore up against the parsimony and neglect of his sovereign, the compassionate tenderness which he manifested for his patient little army. So much intellectual energy commands enthusiasm, while the supineness on the other side sometimes excites indignation.

Her eye for truth had conquered; now she believed that, if he persisted in his rebellion, he must surely die; unless all medical knowledge went for nothing, he would surely die, and die not after long years of lingering, but soon, perhaps very soon. A moment of excitement, say one of the moments that she had loved so much, might kill him; so Claud Manton said.

I had no reason to repent of my submission, for I enjoyed the despotism she exercised on me, and the pain she must be in that I did nothing to her, whilst I would not let her see the charms which she held in her hands. In vain I excited her to satisfy herself, to refuse her desires nothing, but she persisted in maintaining that she did not wish to go any further.

"But don't you mistake: you're mother's money is settled on you, but your father is your trustee!" "My father is a gentleman!" rejoined Barbara not so near the truth as she believed. "Take you care how you push a gentleman," rejoined her father. "Not to love is not to marry not if the man was a prince!" persisted Barbara. She went to her mother's room, but said nothing of what had passed.

This is the consequence of the tactics of those short-sighted intriguers, who persisted in looking upon a revolution as a mere party struggle, and would not permit the mind of the nation to work through the inevitable phases that awaited it.

If the plan is to be successful it must be introduced gradually and in a business manner, i.e. what does not pay must not be persisted in. The plan, now frequently put forward, that Government is to employ all men out of work to reclaim and bring into cultivation waste lands, is liable to additional objections.

"Ward Warren, do you want me to " "But it's breaking all the rules of romance, Bill-the-Conk!" Ward persisted. "No story-sharp would ever stand for a thing like that. Don't you know that the nice young man from college always takes notice in the second chapter, says 'By Jove!