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"He towld me his name was Draper, and sure that's all I know about him." "Will you be kind enough, like a good girl, to skip down-stairs and ask the gentleman to send up his card?" said Handy in his most persuasive manner. The lady who officiated as menial evidently did not relish another journey up and down-stairs, but Handy's winning way and manner of appealing to her had the desired effect.
Nothing simpler, as you see. You can go on." "Well, your mother was so skilfully persuasive that the day after, at the races, I gave that cold greeting." "And so I, that same day, on entering the house, threw myself into mamma's arms, exclaiming, 'Yes, I am willing to marry M. de Courtalin! Ah, how many times between that day and the 16th of May I threw myself into mamma's arms!
In her town house or down at Torywood, with her writing-pad on her knee and the telephone at her elbow, or in personal counsel with some trusted colleague or persuasive argument with a halting adherent or half-convinced opponent, she had laboured on behalf of the poor and the ill-equipped, had fought for her idea of the Right, and above all, for the safety and sanity of her Fatherland.
"Are you a raving lunatic or what are you?" "Come, come, doctor," said Mr. Booley in persuasive accents, "none of that with me, you know. If the man must be moved why he must, that is all, and you must make it possible, somehow." "You are crazy!" exclaimed John. "I am not the doctor, to begin with " "Not the doctor!" cried Mr. Booley. "Then who are you? I beg your pardon, I am sure "
They should study the Irish: I think it was Mr. Redworth who compared the governing of the Irish to the management of a horse: the rider should not grow restive when the steed begins to kick: calmer; firm, calm, persuasive. 'Does Mr. Dacier agree? 'Not always. He has the inveterate national belief that Celtic blood is childish, and the consequently illogical disregard of its hold of impressions.
We wish to invert the poles of the body, and send the magnetism of the brain to the feet." Miss Bowyer now took out a small silver cross and held it up before the child a little above the natural range of vision. "Will you look at this, little boy?" she said. She did her best to make her naturally unsympathetic voice persuasive, even to pronouncing the last word of her entreaty "baw-ee."
'A boiled leg o' mutton first, says I, persuasive; 'and turnips, and got him to Symonds's boarding-house for the very purpose, Symonds being noted. And Symonds I'll do him that justice says the same. Symonds says "
He went hastily up to her, took the hand she offered, sat down beside her, and at once broke into a full declaration of his love now voluble, now hesitating, now submissive, now persuasive, but humblest when most passionate.
What, then, was the surprise of the youth, having such impressions, to hear a discourse unassuming in its dictates, mild in its requisitions, and of a style and temper the most soothing and persuasive!
We all have to do a good deal of assuming, but I am fairly certain that in every case I can call to mind the Baconian assumers have come out ahead of the Shakespearites. Both parties handle the same materials, but the Baconians seem to me to get much more reasonable and rational and persuasive results out of them than is the case with the Shakespearites.
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