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Flack promised to "nose round"; he said the best plan would be that the results should "come back" to her in the Reverberator; it might have been gathered from him that "the people over there" in other words the mass of their compatriots wouldn't be unpersuadable that they wanted about a column on Mr. Probert.
Yet 'tis something of an alleviation, if one must bear undue controul, to bear it from a man of sense. My father, I have heard you say, Madam, was for years a very good-humoured gentleman unobjectionable in person and manners but the man proposed to me I am tired out with your obstinacy The most unpersuadable girl You forget, that I must separate myself from you, if you will not comply.
And I alone must wither, 'mongst my friends. O unpersuadable, with teasing eyes, I am in a most pitiable state. Since thou repell'st me and declin'st to keep Thy promise to me, I'll not hesitate To call thee before God. Unless thou deign'st To cast thy looks on me the coming day, I shall, all clad in vestments rich, make plaint Unto the envoy of our God, the last Of all the prophets.
You must go to bed early, my dear and I recommend a little gruel to you before you go. You and I will have a nice basin of gruel together. My dear Emma, suppose we all have a little gruel." Emma could not suppose any such thing, knowing as she did, that both the Mr. Knightleys were as unpersuadable on that article as herself; and two basins only were ordered.
I wish, for both our sakes, my dear unpersuadable girl, that the decision of this point lay with me. But why, when you know it does not, why should you thus perplex and urge me? To renounce Mr. Lovelace is now but half what is aimed at. Nor will any body else believe you in earnest in the offer, if I would. While you remain single, Mr.
Anne was now at hand to take up her own cause, and the sincerity of her manner being soon sufficient to convince him, where conviction was at least very agreeable, he had no farther scruples as to her being left to dine alone, though he still wanted her to join them in the evening, when the child might be at rest for the night, and kindly urged her to let him come and fetch her, but she was quite unpersuadable; and this being the case, she had ere long the pleasure of seeing them set off together in high spirits.
This had happened the year before. Now, he said, he was beginning to have no longer the same wish. The unpersuadable point, which he did not mention, Emma guessed to be good behaviour to his father. "I have made a most wretched discovery," said he, after a short pause. "I have been here a week to-morrow half my time. I never knew days fly so fast. A week to-morrow!
Miss Bates was obliged to return without success; Jane was quite unpersuadable; the mere proposal of going out seemed to make her worse. Emma wished she could have seen her, and tried her own powers; but, almost before she could hint the wish, Miss Bates made it appear that she had promised her niece on no account to let Miss Woodhouse in.
"I should," I said. "I am not serving Christ when I am there. I am not doing the work He has given me to do. I cannot go." "I came down here on purpose to persuade you," he said. It was not necessary to answer that, otherwise than by a look. "And you are unpersuadable," he said; "unmanageable, of course, by me; strong as a giant, and gentle as a snowflake.
She did not understand how a man so romantically in love could be so unpersuadable on certain points. Hitherto she had had to contend with personal moods, now she was arguing against a policy; and she was gradually to learn that it was as natural to Raymond de Chelles to adore her and resist her as it had been to Ralph Marvell to adore her and let her have her way.
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