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"You've got all our money to build a schoolhouse." "It will not benefit me any more than the townspeople generally," said the lawyer. "For my part, I should have been glad if my late friend had left a larger sum to those connected with him by blood." "Don't you think we could break the will?" asked Mrs. Pinkerton, persuasively. "Couldn't you help us?"
Lionel, dear Lionel!" said Caroline, coming to him persuasively, but he shook her off: "I want none of your dears," said he; "ask Marian's pardon, not mine." He turned his back, and took up a book. The girls dared say no more to him; Miss Morley very nearly cried as she thought how impossible it was for women to manage great boys.
As he bent forward, to be nearer, with the utmost show of delicacy and respect, and with his teeth persuasively arrayed, in a self-depreciating smile, she felt as if she could have struck him dead. 'Miss Florence's position, he began, 'has been an unfortunate one.
"That's the sweetest thing you've ever said to me," he declared. "But we won't toast ourselves. We'll drink to the future, Avery, and " he lowered his voice "and all it contains. What?" Her eyes opened quickly, but she did not move. "Why do you say that?" "What?" he said again very softly. She was silent. He reached a hand for his own glass. "Drink with me, sweetheart!" he said persuasively.
He took the paper, laid it carefully on his desk, threw his right leg across the corner of the long table in easy, friendly attitude and began his reply persuasively: "The editor of the Tribune, gentleman, if on my side, is equal to an army of a hundred thousand men in the field. I've known this from the first. Against me he throws this army in the rear and fires into my back.
This admirable plea, so earnestly and persuasively uttered, somewhat touched Gladys, though her face still wore a perplexed and even troubled look. 'Well, but how can it do me any harm to have these girls at Bourhill? Is it because they are poor that I must not have them?
"You mustn't judge Tom by his jests, sir," rejoined the Governor, persuasively. "His wit takes with the town folks, you know, and I hear that he's becoming famous as a post-office orator." "There it is, sir, there it is," retorted the Major. "I've always said that the post-offices were the ruin of this country and that proves my words.
But how could she hint any of these things to the husband who, by his very invitation, was proving his complete trust, or the lover to whom she must seem the confidently happy wife? "I'm sure Conscience joins me in insisting that you come," went on Mr. Tollman persuasively. "You can wear a flannel shirt and do as you like because we are informal folk and you would be a member of the family."
'Merely a curiosity, dear boy, he said persuasively, and slipped the brick into his bag; 'merely a memento of the past ah, happy past, bright past! You will not take a touch of spirits? no? I find you very abstemious. Well, he added, 'if you have really no curiosity to await the event 'I! cried Somerset. 'My blood boils to get away.
If Edwin Clayhanger was startled, so was she startled. "Oh yes, I have!" he stammered of course, she had put him out of countenance. She smiled, and said persuasively: "But you've never inquired after me." "Yes, I have," he answered, with a hint of defiance, after a pause. "Only once." She continued to smile. "How do you know?" he demanded.
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