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The old man had hit the spot where, as a matter of fact, all of them were sore, although they tried to persuade themselves, and each other, that they were prejudiced against Amrei because she had come among them without any relatives of her own. And while Amrei was talking to John's sister, the old farmer said to his son in a low voice: "One would never imagine, to look at her, what she has.
"Then I will not be wonderful any more." "It is not because I think you wonderful, but because other people will. Would you rebuild a great house?" hesitatingly. The fine line of Betty's black brows drew itself slightly together. "No," she said. "Wouldn't you?" "How could the man who owned it persuade me that he was in earnest if he said he loved me?
"Did you make him confess?" "I tried to persuade by silvery speech, but it did not meet with success. Then I turned to muscular force. Monsieur, when Abdul el Jabel saw I was in earnest, he cried out for fear, and swore by all the prophets that if I would let him live he would confess the truth." "Good, good!" says John, pleased with the business qualities of his guide.
But when John came back from Europe landless, there arose the new risk that he might persuade her to sell the odd sixty acres, and, on looking into the records to get its description, find himself and his mother the legal owners of Rosemont. "That's why the villain was so anxious to marry her!" said John to himself audibly as he paced up and down in the Rosemont parlor. "Mr.
And this was why she had stopped Martine, assuming a pitying air, asking what news there was, and seeming to be surprised that they had not had recourse to her purse, while giving it to be understood that her dignity forbade her to take the first step. "You should speak to monsieur, and persuade him," ended the servant. And indeed, why should he not appeal to his mother?
Houghton's protection, while he returned home on a peremptory summons from the General. He found the old man in such a state of body and mind as he tries to persuade me was an excuse for denying the whole thing, and from that time he represents himself as bound hand and foot by the General's tyranny.
Prescott claims, as I understand, to be able to transmute copper into gold. Whatever you think of it offhand, you should visit his laboratory yourselves, gentlemen. I am told it is wonderful, though I have never seen it and can't explain it. I have met Prescott several times while he was trying to persuade Mr.
He who has sacrificed his repose, and the legitimate rewards of life, to a great idea, always experiences a feeling of revulsion when the image of death presents itself to him for the first time, and seeks to persuade him that all has been in vain. Perhaps some of those touching reminiscences which the strongest souls preserve, and which at times pierce like a sword, came upon him at this moment.
Indeed, my beloved Miss Howe, I am ashamed to have your mother say, with ME in her view, 'What strange effects have prepossession and love upon young creatures of our sex! This touches me the more sensibly, because you yourself, my dear, are so ready to persuade me into it.
"I hope you feel yourself better, sir," said I. "I fell myself a great deal lighter every minute. Get a cord, Peter, and tie me to the leg of the table." I tried to persuade him that he was under a mistake; but it was useless. He became excessively violent, and said I wished him in heaven.
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