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I'm sure I'd much prefer that always, only you goad me into the other thing." "I goad?" "Yes. By your masterly inactivity when I am concerned. I have to force myself into your life, and after we've been chums for three years, you, left to yourself, ignore my existence. You have such a terrible power of negative resistance against poor, strong-willed me.
Golden sovereigns were solid facts; wifely virtues, by a serious-minded and strong-willed husband, could be instilled at all events, light-heartedness suppressed.
She was a true type of the strong-willed, artful, and perverse woman in barbarous times; she started low down in the scale and rose very high without a corresponding elevation of soul; she was audacious and perfidious, as perfect in deception as in effrontery, proceeding to atrocities either from cool calculation or a spirit of revenge, abandoned to all kinds of passion, and, for gratification of them, shrinking from no sort of crime.
It is dull and unpleasant to be rich. Win friends by just riches, they say, because as a rule there is and can be no such thing as just riches." She looked at the furniture with a serious, cold expression, as though she was making an inventory of it, and went on: "Ease and comfort possess a magic power. Little by little they seduce even strong-willed people.
She did not wish to quarrel with the curé, so she promised to be more attentive to the services, inwardly resolving to go regularly only for a few weeks, out of good nature. Little by little, however, she fell into the habit of frequenting the church, and, in a short time, she was entirely under the influence of the delicate-looking, strong-willed priest.
But the succeeding reign of Philip IV. was epoch-making. That imperious, strong-willed son of Saint Louis demanded that the clergy should share the state's burden by contributing to its revenue. Pope Boniface VIII., imperious and strong-willed as he, immediately issued a bull, forbidding the clergy to pay, or the officers to receive, such taxes.
'Yes, said Hermione, as each woman came out of her own separate reverie. 'It would be a mistake I think it would be a mistake 'To marry him? asked Ursula. 'Yes, said Hermione slowly 'I think you need a man soldierly, strong-willed Hermione held out her hand and clenched it with rhapsodic intensity.
John is terribly strong-willed, and this would worry me, were I not sure that his sense of justice is equally strong. He is like me in gentleness; but the man in him is the same man I loved in my girlhood days. When John maps out a course to act upon, if he believes he is right, nothing can swerve him nothing. And sometimes he has been innocently wrong.
"Barbara is a strong-willed woman and she might choose to take the man and let the money go, and then who can stop her? Also I don't like your idea of smashing Vernon. It isn't right, and it may come back on our own heads, especially yours. I am sorry that he has left us, as you were on Friday night, for somehow he was a good, honest stick to lean on, and we want such a stick.
Such matters, however, are not easy to conceal, and the news leaked out. "I am surprised," said his cousin, Dr. Edward J. Burton, to him a few days later, "to find that you are married." "I am myself even more surprised than you," was the reply. "Isabel is a strong-willed woman. She was determined to have her way and she's got it." With Mr.
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