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What we have to guard against principally is letting her get into any situation where the circumstances make such a thing possible. I've almost a notion to let the New York end of this case go altogether for a while and take a run up to Tuxedo to warn her and Mrs. de Lancey personally. Still, I think I put it strongly enough with Warrington so that " Our telephone tinkled insistently.
As if the wind had heard him, and was answering, there came more distinctly the sound close behind him. Thud! Thud! Thud! There was a silence, in which David closed his fingers tightly about the picture. And then, more insistently: Thud! Thud! Thud! He put the picture back into his pocket, and rose to his feet. Mechanically he slipped on his coat.
But so insistently did he urge me to defer any such conference as I proposed until I had talked with him that, although it was too late to break the dinner engagement, I agreed to avoid, if possible, any reference to my project. I also agreed to return home the next day. That night my guests honored me as agreed. For an hour or two we discussed business conditions and affairs in general.
She had forgotten Brett Mercer. He came forward quickly, stooped and looked at her; then went down on his knee and thrust his arm about her. She sat upright in his hold, not yielding an inch, not looking at him. Her eyes were glassy. For a little he held her; then gently but insistently he drew her to him, pillowed her head against him, and began to rub her icy cheek.
Instantly the clatter of mastery to which I had responded so quickly for so many years grew perceptibly fainter, the hens cackled less domineeringly, the pigs squealed less insistently, and as for the strutting cockerel, that lordly and despotic bird stopped fairly in the middle of a crow, and his voice gurgled away in a spasm of astonishment.
Stringham, who rustled in a little breathless and full of the compunction of having had to come alone. Her companion, at the last moment, had been indisposed positively not well enough, and so had packed her off, insistently, with excuses, with wild regrets.
Swiftly he slipped on such clothes as he needed and stepped into the passage. A heavy smoke was pouring up the back stairway. He knocked insistently upon the door where Phyllis and her guest were sleeping. "What is it?" a voice demanded. "Get up and dress, Miss Sanderson! The house is on fire! You have plenty of time, I think. If there's any hurry I'll let you know after I've looked."
But when the time came for me to bid her farewell she renewed again and very insistently her warning that Simone of the Bardi meant mischief to Dante of the Alighieri, and her counsel that young Dante should be persuaded, for his dear lady's sake, to fob off suspicion by feigning an affection which indeed had no place in his bosom.
However, he seemed very friendly and affable toward me personally once the chill air of the waitingroom had been left behind and as Button Fles had advised me insistently to entertain without regard to expense any officials with whom I came in contact, I thought it politic to invite him to dinner.
And then, I suddenly realized why his face was familiar to me. This was the man who in a monkish robe had stared so insistently at me that day at Mondolfo five years ago. He was a sort of outlaw, a remnant of the days of chivalry and free-lances, whose sword was at the disposal of any purchaser.
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