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"But what?" "Must he persist in a course which will break his mother's heart, and make his father deplore the hour that he was born? Have you influence over him, M. de Mauleon? If so, will you not exert it for his good?" "You interest yourself still in his fate, Mademoiselle?" "How can I do otherwise? Did I not consent to share it when my heart shrank from the thought of our union?
These noblemen pretended at first that they were willing to stand their trial; but having in vain endeavoured to make their adherents persist in rebellion, they offered to come to London, provided they might receive hostages for their safety: this proposal being rejected, they were obliged to disband the remains of their forces, and have recourse to flight.
Not all at once will your thirty thousand Needlewomen, your three million Paupers, your Connaught fallen into potential Cannibalism, and other fine consequences of the practice, come to light; though come to light they will; and "Ou' clo'!" itself may be in store for you, if you persist steadily enough.
On this the chief levelled his musket, with significant gesture's, showing that he intended to persist in his demand. "We must yield to the fellow," said Adair; "it would be folly to run the risk of being shot for the sake of maintaining our dignity." "I don't think that musket would be after shooting us," observed Desmond, with perfect calmness. "Why so?" asked Adair.
But in spite of this our position is less enviable than ever, and it requires no genius to see that if the Chinese commanders persist in their present policy the Legations must fall unless relief comes in another two weeks. Look at the Su wang-fu and the plucky little Japanese colonel!
It was a dark night, neither moon nor stars to be seen, and after we had passed the church the darkness seemed to envelop us, and I could barely distinguish the path. Max seemed quite oblivious of this fact, for he would persist in pointing out invisible objects of interest. I was told of the wide stretch of country that lay on the right, and how freshly the soft breezes blew over the downs.
"I am not greatly surprised," was her mother's quiet comment. "Mary is too good a girl at heart to persist for long in this ridiculous stand she has taken. I am glad you said nothing of it to her. She must clear her own path of the briars she has sown. When she does, she will have learned a much-needed lesson."
"I am distressed to be obliged to persist, madame," said Colbert, after a silence which enabled the duchesse to sound the depths of his dissimulation, "but I must warn you that, for the last six years, denunciation after denunciation has been made against M. Fouquet, and he has remained unshaken and unaffected by them."
They say he's always at it to the effect that the verdict of the jury at the inquest was all wrong, and that his evidence was put clean aside. He persists that he did see what he swore he saw." "He'll persist in that to his dying day," said Bryce carelessly. "If that's all there is " "It isn't," interrupted the inspector. "Not by a long chalk!
I don't quite know why you persist in being there. But, as you do, and as you are wearing thin for want of sustenance, here is something for you!" And now, because of what life had done, Lady Sellingworth was afraid. When she had parted from her friends after the theatre party, and was once more alone in her big house, she knew thoroughly, absolutely, for the first time what life had done.
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