pertinacious-i

Updated: May 21, 2025

When a man has been all day encompassed with sounds and sights of suffering, he naturally longs for cheerful faces and cheerful voices in his own house. Then Martha's pertinacious-I won't say hostility to my little wife-what shall I call it?" "It is only want of sympathy. She is too really good to be hostile to any one. "Thank you, my darling," he said, "I believe you do her justice."

E. (Elizabeth) Prentiss - Stepping Heavenward