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She had lost her respect for this man who had, it seemed, betrayed her confidence, and if he had given her a moment's time, would probably have dispensed with his company. As it was, however, Alton drew her out into the street with a swift forcefulness before she could frame an answer.
Claude Ditmar's ability to put it through was unquestioned; one had only to look at him, tenacity, forcefulness, executiveness were written all over him.... In addition, the article contained much material of an autobiographical nature that must Janet thought have been supplied by Ditmar himself, whose modesty had evidently shrunk from the cruder self-eulogy of an interview.
There was a cast-iron quality about it, a forcefulness, that made her wonder. Had she ever really met the man who dwelt within that coat of mail? Could there be some terrible revelation in store for her? Would she some day find that she had given herself to a being utterly alien to her in thought and impulse? He had shown her so little so very little of his soul.
His manner changed suddenly to the violent, imperious forcefulness of a man driven to the last resort. "Must I call for help?" she cried, thoroughly alarmed, once more the weak woman, face to face, as she thought, with an insane man. "I love you better than my own life, and I've hurt you terribly. I'm not crazy, Helen!
You believe that I will prove a match for him." Maud Barrington, to her annoyance, felt the blood creep to her forehead, but she looked at the man steadily, noticing the quiet forcefulness beneath his somewhat caustic amusement. "Yes," she said, simply; "and I shall be grateful."
In the long fight for righteousness the watchword for all is, 'Spend and be spent. It is of little matter whether any one man fails or succeeds; but the cause shall not fail, for it is the cause of mankind." The decision once made, Roosevelt threw himself into the contest for delegates to the nominating convention with his unparalleled vigor and forcefulness.
It was as if he were asking these questions from his inmost, deepest heart. "I I don't know just what to say," she faltered. "I never thought of the matter in that way before. One doesn't like to answer so serious a question offhand. But " she hesitated and felt herself being swept into agreement by his very forcefulness of character and intensity of feeling. "Why, yes I suppose you are right.
"Clifford is a very shrewd man of business," remarked Larssen, drinking his third cognac at Ciro's at the end of a dinner which was a masterpiece even for Monte Carlo, where dining is taken au grand sérieux. He did not sip cognac, but took it neat in liqueur glassfuls at a time. There was a clean-cut forcefulness even in his drinking, typical of the human dynamo of will-power within.
It was not necessary, however, for Fleming Stone said one was enough to gather all that he could learn from her chirography. He studied it attentively, but only for a moment. Then he said, "A characteristic penmanship, but to me it only shows forcefulness, ingenuity and good nature.
He took up the candle with a stubborn effort to recapture his old forcefulness, but as they left the room the shadows thronged thickly after them in ominous pursuit; and it wasn't necessary to question Katherine. She stood in the corridor, her lips parted, her face white and shocked. "What was it?" she said. "That nearly silent grief?"
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