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"You ! I'll have those dollars if I have to take 'em!" "You shall not!" Will flung his pipe to the ground and dashed at Eve like a madman. He caught her by the shoulders, and gripped the warm rounded flesh until the pain made her writhe under his clutch. "Where are they?" he demanded, with another furious oath. "I'm going to have 'em. Speak! Speak, you or I'll " But Eve was obdurate.
It was a long but a profitable year for Graydon Bansemer; he had been enriched not only in wealth but in the hope of ultimate happiness. Not that Jane encouraged him. Far from it, she was more obdurate than ever with an ocean between them. But his atom of determination had grown to a purpose.
Early deprivations, and the necessity of a most rigid economy to meet the exigencies of this straitened condition, created habits of abstinence and saving which he never gave up. On the contrary, like all habits long indulged, they became stronger and more obdurate as life advanced.
But the officials were stolid and obdurate; they were unaccustomed to hurry and flurry, and they refused to do anything to help him; and the old man came out to us again, wringing his bony hands, and using language that was plaintive and powerful alternately. Meanwhile Haigh had shown unwonted activity.
His ticket entitled him to act as master on the waters of San Francisco Bay and the waters tributary thereto, and although Scraggs argued that the Pacific Ocean constituted waters "tributary thereto," if he understood the English language, the Inspectors were obdurate. What if the distance was less than twenty-five miles? they pointed out.
Did I not at your birth bestow upon you a ring, that communicates to the wearer the power of assuming what form he please? I gave it, in order to elude the curse of the malignant goblin, to subdue the most obdurate female, and to evade the most subtle adversary.
He gave his young friend a full account of the night at Lord Howe's and the interviews which had followed it. "All London knows how I stand now. They will not try again to bribe me. The displeasure of Sir Benjamin will react upon you." "What shall I do if he continues to be obdurate?" "Shove my table this way and I'll show you a problem in prudential algebra," said the philosopher.
Was it not enough that Guy Darrell should be so obdurate! must the mild William Losely be also a malefic in their horoscope? But when, that same evening, the old man more observantly than ever watched his grandchild, his comfort vanished misgivings came over him he felt assured that the fatal shaft had been broken in the wound, and that the heart was bleeding inly.
Instructions had come to him from General Marlanx, and he could not set them aside at will. Her plea that he might once more be assigned to old-time duties found the colonel regretfully obdurate.
Ah! it was a terrible sacrifice that he demanded of her. But how could she remain obdurate in the presence of such intense anguish? "I will remain neutral," she replied, "that is all I can promise. Providence shall decide." "Thank you," he said, sadly, suspecting that perhaps it was already too late "thank you."
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