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The figure which he took to be Hazlet hastily retreated, and Julian half-persuaded himself that he was mistaken. "Did you see who that was?" asked Lillyston sadly. "Yes," said Julian; "one of the simple ones; `but he knoweth not that the dead are there, and that her guests are in the depths of hell." "You must speak to him, Julian." "I will."
He simply can't lose, can't fail to cop out the best-looking girl with the biggest bank-roll in town. I tell you, there's nothing to it!" "It's wonderful to listen to you, Harry." "I'm talking horse sense, my son. Can't you see it now?" "Yes," Duncan admitted, half-persuaded of the plausibility of the scheme. "I see and I admire immensely the intellect that conceived the notion, Harry.
This visit I do not set down to your account, but to that of honour foolish, unnecessary honour. You half-persuaded me, that your hearsay Parisian evidence was more to be trusted than my own judgment, and I returned home with the resolution not to be the dupe of a coquette. Leonora's reception of me was delightful; I never saw her in such spirits, or so amiable.
It seemed that he himself was travelling in these wild places in search of an old Greek inscription, mention of which he had discovered in some book. He half-persuaded me to bear him company. 'You are doing no good here, alone with such companions, he said, as I at last departed. 'Think over my advice to you. Go back to England. Come with me for the next few days, and share my tents.
The little boy resolved next time to go beyond the trees to sleep; perhaps if he went far enough he would come to the other one of the Feet, and so have a safeguard against lightning, foreign cows, and Those that walk with rustlings and whisper in the lonely places at night. The little boy fell asleep, half-persuaded again to virtue, because of its superior comforts.
'The only difference between you and him, says I to him, 'is that he was whole white and was running a straight bluff, and you are part white, and are running a half-way sort of bluff. You pray to God A'mighty so much about this that you have just about got yourself half-persuaded that you're honest. Do you reckon that you have got God A'mighty persuaded that way, too? said I to him.
I dare say this Genoese joke is already in print: That the Devil reëntered Paradise when Byron took this villa. Though, in loveliest Italy, one is half-persuaded that the Devil had never left Paradise. After lingering a little longer on that delicious height, we turned and went down for a stroll through the city.
More than half-persuaded, as she was, of the truth of much that she had told her brother, strenuously as she had nourished the few facts she was in possession of, till she had made them yield a double crop of inferences, she was yet conscious of large exaggerations of what she knew, and of huge additions to what she believed to be probabilities, and had delivered as facts.
Creighton's conduct; art may reach a great way, but it can never cover the whole ground, and the pretty widow involuntarily betrayed too many variations of manner, graduated by Harry's varying prospects; his eyes were completely opened; he was ashamed of himself for having been half-persuaded that she was attached to him.
He often repeated a saying of Coleridge: 'They do not believe they only believe that they believe. He used to speak of men who 'played false with their intellects'; or, in other words, turned away their minds from unwelcome truths and by allowing their wishes or interests to sway their judgments, persuaded or half-persuaded themselves to believe whatever they wished.
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