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Joachim, however, did not wish to play, and did not yield except under the force of persuasion, and then he said: "I have not had a violin in my hands for three days; I am in no mood to play; moreover, there are many in the orchestra who can play it better than I, but I don't want to refuse."
He felt like a pilgrim who has arrived within the place of his devotion, and who looks round about him, hoping some day to relate what he sees. He gazed upwards and downwards, and on every side round about, and saw movements graceful with every truth of innocence, and faces full of loving persuasion, rich in their own smiles and in the light of the smiles of others.
This desire to be for ever as we are the reluctance to a violent and unexperienced change which is common to all the animated and inanimate combinations of the universe is indeed the secret persuasion which has given birth to the opinions of a Future State.
We thought not, but the driver was firm, and although the back seat was not very wide, we piled in upon the sky-blue cushions, trying to look as pleasant as possible in the circumstances. After some persuasion on the part of the Filipino, the piebald pony started and proved to be a fine little animal with an unusually clean and even gait.
But dawn found almost no two men agreed as to Ranjoor Singh, or in fact on any other point. Not long after dawn, came the Germans again, with new arguments. And this time they began to let us feel the iron underlying their persuasion. Once, to make talk and gain time before answering a question, I had told them of our labor in the bunkers on the ship that carried us from India.
Delaplaine, had been persuaded to devote a portion of their valuable time to rehabilitating Greenacre Farm. It took tact and persuasion to induce the aforesaid gentlemen to desert their favorite chairs on the little stoop in front of Byers' Grocery Store, and approach anything resembling daily toil.
When they found that persuasion would not induce me to divest myself of clothing, they began to destroy my clothes, by tearing them in pieces.
Garfield was a Campbellite and had he not been murdered no one would have suspected that he was a great man. If any of the immortelles was of the Baptist persuasion he was probably ashamed of that fact, as he kept it concealed. It is possible that in soaking the original sin out of a fellow any latent germs of genius he possesses may be extracted also.
"As Eunice's white dress disappeared among the cedars crowning the shore, I sprang up and ran after her. I knew that Abel was not intoxicated, but simply excited, and I had no fear on his account: I obeyed an involuntary impulse. On approaching the water, I heard their voices, hers in friendly persuasion, his in sentimental entreaty, then the sound of oars in the rowlocks.
Neither of them needed much persuasion the whole party rode away together the "lads and lasses" of the neighborhood were summoned, and the day and night were spent in merriment and dancing. Grayson and his wife returned on the following morning to their new home, where a life of steady and honorable industry, was rewarded with affluence and content.
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