Wardour noticed the action--he resented it--he appealed, in defense of his one cherished
conviction, to Crayford's own experience of him.
Her mother, still confident of their engagement, and relying as warmly as ever on his constancy, had only been roused by Elinor's application, to intreat from Marianne greater openness towards them both; and this, with such tenderness towards her, such affection for Willoughby, and such a conviction of their future happiness in each other, that she wept with agony through the whole of it.
My object--my wish--my sole wish in desiring it--I hope, I believe it is--is to be a means of giving comfort;--no, I must not say comfort--not present comfort--but conviction, lasting conviction to your sister's mind.
"An Outpost of Progress" is the lightest part of the loot I carried off from Central Africa, the main portion being of course "The Heart of Darkness." Other men have found a lot of quite different things there and I have the comfortable
conviction that what I took would not have been of much use to anybody else.
To persuade him against returning into Hertfordshire, when that
conviction had been given, was scarcely the work of a moment.
With her it was a deep religious
conviction that the struggle round her was of the powers of Good and Evil, and that Good was triumphing.
'last conviction.' I seized greedily on my new idea; I thirstily drank in all its different aspects (I did not sleep a wink that night!), and the deeper I went into it the more my being seemed to merge itself in it, and the more alarmed I became.
"Sometimes, thinking over this, I became quite numb with the terror of it; and I might well have deduced from this fact, that my 'last conviction' was eating into my being too fast and too seriously, and would undoubtedly come to its climax before long.
Elton, the caution he had given, the
conviction he had professed that Mr.
On these occasions, he would redouble in energy, and declare that black was white, and blue yellow, with much
conviction and heat of manner; but in the morning such a licence of debate weighed upon him like a crime, and he would seek out his father, where he walked before breakfast on a terrace overlooking all the vale of Thyme.
I must admit that he did not believe in the unicorn, and was the only one on board who did not share that universal
conviction. He even avoided the subject, which I one day thought it my duty to press upon him.
But make our fundamental
convictions your own, join our brotherhood, give yourself up to us, let yourself be guided, and you will at once feel yourself, as I have felt myself, a part of that vast invisible chain the beginning of which is hidden in heaven," said Pierre.
