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Though you importune me for a day, I could but make the same reply." "Sir Frederick passes his word that he will not tease you on that subject to-night; but speak I must concerning this match with Lord Clowes." "'T is in vain, sir," replied Janice; "for every moment convinces me the more that I must wed him, and so you will but make my duty the harder."

She was a plainly dressed woman, but she had a manner which removed her entirely from the class of those who merely came to importune. There was absolute certainty in the eyes she fixed with steadiness on the man's face. He took her card, though he hesitated. "If he does not see me," she added, "he will be very much displeased."

A man of honor ceases to importune a woman after such an avowal." "A man of spirit never gives up; he perseveres, in the hope that sooner or later, he will reach his goal. No man has the right to expect that he will obtain a treasure without trouble." "Cant! miserable cant!"

To snare or to snatch, To pray and importune, Must wager and venture And hunt down his fortune! Then flows in a current the gear and the gain, And the garners are filled with the gold of the grain, Now a yard to the court, now a wing to the centre! Within sits another, The thrifty housewife; The mild one, the mother Her home is her life.

When he was told that the father would not know it, he replied: 'But will God fail to see it, even if the father does not know it? At this reply the man became abashed and ashamed, and ceased to importune him.

"For a libertine!" said he, with a lofty grimace of virtue and superior wealth. "If you are right, my constancy has some merit, monsieur. That is all." After bowing to the officer as a woman bows to dismiss an importune visitor, she turned away too quickly to see him once more fold his arms.

You cannot think," he added, "how much I suffer by seeing so many people about me, who importune me, and whom I cannot in civility put away. Your company alone relieves me; but I conjure you not to dissemble with me: what news do you bring of Schemselnihar? Have you seen her confidant? What says she to you?" Ebn Thaher answered, that he had not seen her yet.

The term for which Edmond had engaged to serve on board The Young Amelia having expired, Dantes took leave of the captain, who at first tried all his powers of persuasion to induce him to remain as one of the crew, but having been told the history of the legacy, he ceased to importune him further.

The parties continued at Cheltenham; and Mr Rainscourt, following up his plan, made an avowal to his wife, that he had now abandoned all hopes of success, and would not importune her any more. He only requested that she would receive him on those terms of intimacy in which consisted the present happiness of his life.

No, she did not believe he would be satisfied to live out his future in any such way. Still she conceived a sudden resolution. She would see him; she would tell him the truth, and she believed he would sympathize with her and at once withdraw his suit, while her sister would have to accept his decision as final, and cease to importune her further upon the subject.