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He became more and more desirous every day to make peace with the Romans, preferring very much that such a people should be his allies rather than his enemies. They, however, firmly and pertinaciously refused to treat with him on any terms, unless, as a preliminary step, he would go back to his own dominions. This he thought he could not do with honor. Lanassa. The tyrant her father.
The hearing, at the same time, although excited in degree, was not irregular in action estimating real sounds with an extravagance of precision, not less than of sensibility. Touch had undergone a modification more peculiar. Its impressions were tardily received, but pertinaciously retained, and resulted always in the highest physical pleasure.
The ingenuity of his successive pleas for pressing such a request pertinaciously upon Mr.
'Yes; it is from her. 'Is she quite well? 'I suppose she is. She does not speak of her health. He looked pertinaciously in the direction of the letter, and it was not rightly mannered. That letter, of all others, was covert and sacred to the friend. It contained the weightiest of secrets. 'I have not written to her, said Redworth. He was astonishing: 'To whom? To Diana?
I've had no chance yet, you've shunned me so pertinaciously." "Indeed I try not to be rude, but " She checked herself, and turned her face away, adding, with an accent of pain in her voice, "It is not my fault, Mr. Coventry. I only obey orders." "Whose orders?" he demanded, still standing so that she could not escape. "Don't ask; it is one who has a right to command where you are concerned.
Still there are some left who recalcitrate pertinaciously, clinging convulsively with hands and feet to their old ignorance.
A few words from him decided the event of the conflict. The bill was rejected thirty-six hours after it had been brought in by a hundred and ninety-two votes to a hundred and sixty-five, Even after this defeat the Whigs pertinaciously returned to the attack. Having failed in one House they renewed the battle in the other.
In fact, if he were to do so, he would be compelled to give up, at once, all hope of ever getting possession of his throne. Anne Maria knew this very well. The plea, however, made an excellent excuse to defend herself with from Lord Germain's importunities. She adhered to it, therefore, pertinaciously; the negotiation was broken off, and Lord Germain went away.
He did uncommon things in such a matter-of-fact way that he made them common by the performance. The faint spiritual double which I found lurking behind his steel and iron he either solidified with his metallic touch or pertinaciously denied its existence. "Plato was a fool," he said, "to talk of an ideal table; for, supposing he could see it, and prove its existence, what good could it do?
On Tuesday I found it necessary again to call in Dr. Fordyce in the afternoon, who brought with him Dr. Clarke of New Burlington-street, under the idea that some operation might be necessary. I have already said, that I pertinaciously persisted in viewing the fair side of things; and therefore the interval between Sunday and Tuesday evening, did not pass without some mixture of cheerfulness.
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