But it cannot alter my determination.

I must reply briefly and brutally.

What I wish to ask you is, whether with sincerity you can urge my arguments upon your brother, and give me this assistance in the most obvious duty ?" "I have no influence with him, Mr.Mallard." Again he looked at her persistently, and said with deliberation: "I think you must have some.

And this is one of the cases in which a number of voices may possibly prevail, though one or two are ineffectual.

But--if you will forgive me my direct words--your voice is, of course, useless if you cannot speak in earnest." She was able now to return his look, for her pride was being aroused.
The face she examined bore such plain marks of suffering that with difficulty she removed her eyes from it.