per-sistent

Updated: May 23, 2025

She watched the two men drive off in silence, Leander's bush beard reddening in the sun, his big body filling more than his half of the seat. "Well, by Gum! If he ain't the blamedest, most per-sistent old fool!" he complained to his wife that night. Their first words were of the old man, already missed like one of the family from the humble place he had made for himself.

Mary Hallock Foote - The Desert and the Sown