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Updated: June 18, 2025
A petition from an incarcerated poet assimilates the mountain of the Jacobins to that of Parnassus a state-creditor importunes for a small payment from the Gods of Olympus and congratulations on the abolition of Christianity are offered to the legislators of Mount Sinai! Every instance of baseness calls forth an eulogium on their magnanimity.
He has neither read nor heard of Byron's poem which this statue inspired. He sees near by the celebrated Marble Faun, but he has not read Hawthorne's romance and therefore the statue evokes no interest. In short, he is bored and uncomfortable, and importunes his companions to go elsewhere.
Sometimes it is a man who importunes you to purchase, sometimes a young girl, and at others even a child of eleven or twelve years belonging to either sex. The pretty girl of course finds the most customers, offering to "kiss the ticket for good luck," and on the sly, perhaps the purchaser also. This must be a Spanish idea, as it is practiced both in Madrid and Cuba.
This fool has suddenly lost her sight: I tell you a strange, but a very true thing she is not sensible that she is blind, but eternally importunes her keeper to take her abroad, because she says the house is dark.
"This was the grievance that still corroded my heart, and rendered ineffectual the inhuman sacrifice I had made to my injured honour. This was the consideration that incessantly prompted, and still importunes me to run every risk of life and fortune, rather than leave my fame under such an ignominious aspersion. I purpose to obey this internal call.
To-night I am resolved to be at ease; to dismiss what importunes, and recall what pleases. It would please me now to draw you out to learn more of you therefore speak!" It was now May, and Sylvia's time was little more than a month off. She had been urging me to come and visit her, but I had refused, knowing that my presence must necessarily be disturbing to both her husband and her aunt.
"He has crushed so many hearts that he deems himself irresistible, and of late has been annoying me. If by any chance he finds me alone, he importunes me to make a tryst with him and save him from death because of a broken heart.
My heart overflows with hatred; the presence of my best friend weighs me down; the memory of a pure and noble love importunes and troubles me, and then it is cowardly and unworthy. But last night I learned, with savage joy, the death of Sarah of this unnatural mother, who has caused the death of my child.
Fairfax ditto; you, I am persuaded, can suit me if you will: you puzzled me the first evening I invited you down here. I have almost forgotten you since: other ideas have driven yours from my head; but to-night I am resolved to be at ease; to dismiss what importunes, and recall what pleases. It would please me now to draw you out to learn more of you therefore speak."
The cloud is still upon him he may forget it for an hour, but each day begins in gloom uncertainty is the only hell. At last he boldly importunes and asks that a day shall be set to try his case. Nobody knows anything about his case! Charges what charges? However, a Committee of Cardinals wish to see him why, yes, Thursday at ten o'clock!
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