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They were about the size of small hogs very much of the same build and covered with a thin sandy bristly hair, just like some hogs are. They were not "pigheaded," however. Their heads were exactly like those of the grey rabbit, and instead of hoofs they were toed and clawed.
'My brother John your father, I mean and I have not met for a good number of years, not since we had the misfortune to disagree about a trifle, continued the old man, keeping his eyes fixed on the girl's face till she found herself made nervous by them. 'Time has proved that I was right, quite right; but my brother John was always, if you will excuse me saying it, rather pigheaded, and'
"Not a bad fellow, though, after all." "By no means, Mrs. Houghton, and quite what he ought to be in appearance. I always thought that George was very foolish." "Lord George is foolish sometimes." "Very stubborn, you know, and pigheaded. And as for the Dean, is was great interference on his part, very great interference. I won't say that I like foreigners myself.
I think you are the most pigheaded, obstinate, self-satisfied, ignorant creature who ever ruined a great cause." He accepted the lash of her words without any sign of offence, seemed, indeed, inclined to treat them reflectively. "Come," he protested, "you have wasted a lot of breath in abusing me. Why not justify it?
There were evidences enough to convince you or me, had we been there to watch them, that this young lady was caught in the toils of love quite as inextricably as this young gentleman; but, with the pigheaded obstinacy and stupidity incident to his condition, he declined to see it, and voluntarily betook himself to misery, after the manner of young men in love from time immemorial.
Men of real genius are, I was informed further, sometimes sent back in despair year after year, while pigheaded sons of nobles and wealthy people generally pass with honours, and are never or very seldom plucked. Education, as a whole, is up to a very limited point pretty generally spread all over the Corean realm, but of thorough education there is very little.
Besides, sir, they are not like us Cornish; they are a stupid pigheaded generation at the best, these south countrymen. They're grown-up babies who want the parson and the squire to be leading them, and preaching to them, and spurring them on, and coaxing them up, every moment.
I am quite of your mind, Frau Bauer; though every Russian and most Frenchmen are a good riddance, I do not rejoice to think of any Englishman, however lazy, tiresome, and pigheaded, being killed." They both ate steadily for a few minutes, then Manfred Hegner began again. "But very few Englishmen will be killed by our brave fellows.
Had she been in dear Paris, or in dearer Vienna, that would have not hindered her from receiving the visit; but in pigheaded London this could not be done; and, therefore, when she had duly scrutinized Captain Boodle's card, and had learned from the servant that Captain Boodle desired to see herself on very particular business, she made an appointment with him for the following day.
It is easy to say we should not be obstinate, pigheaded, and argue for argument's sake. That is true, just as much as every half truth is true, but the other half is also true. Mr. Furze, excepting when he was out of temper, never stood up to Orkid Jim.
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