He laughed even audibly once or twice, as he vainly endeavoured to persuade himselfthat he was able to regard the world and all that belonged to it as a bubble.
The time of opportunity, which he tried to persuade himself he did not premeditate, but which was forcing itself upon him, approached moment by moment.
He wanted to persuade himself, as he gradually neared the climax of his temptation and of his fate, that he came with no object, but simply because curiosity drew him to the old house, to see how things were going on there.
He tried to persuade himself that he breathed more freely; then he grovelled down upon the hearth, and hid his face in his hands.
Yet he paused, in that most anxious and exciting moment, to inspect this one, and marched doggedly round and about it, as if to persuade himself that he was interested.
He whistled loudly and defiantly, as he strutted through the dim aisles of the plantation, and tried to persuade himself that he was not a bit sorry that Sir John at that moment was suffering all the tortures of suspense.
He tried to persuade himself it was no concern of his what happened, and that if Dorothy Hamblyn died it would be a just judgment on Sir John for his grasping and oppressive ways.
When once the herald of the new religion had contrived topersuade himself of his Divine call, such blindly confident prayer and trust in God no longer involve anything wonderful.
It was possible for him to persuade himself of things which he had once regarded in quite a different light.
At last, to escape from them, he sought to persuade himself that he too, was a depraved, sensual egoist, and that his scruples were but the outcome of hidden lust.
Trying to persuade himself that he attached no importance to what he had just done, he put out his tongue and moved away from the glass.
He endeavoured to persuade himself that it certainly was a wrong thing for Martin Kelly to marry such a woman as Anty Lynch, and that Barry had some show of justice on his side; but he could not succeed.
But these feelings, though strong enough to disturb him, were not strong enough to make him pause: he tried to persuade himself that he could yet make her happy, and hurried on to the consummation of his hopes.
In a spirit of humiliation he did set himself to pledge Otto not to neglect Franz; he tried to persuade himself that he was glad to see him finding pleasure in society other than his own.
Marston fancied shadows lurked about the edge of the beam from the door and found it hard to persuade himself he was deceived, although he knew nobody was there.
Marston frowned, because it was hard to persuade himself he was not in Africa.
She knew Bob and thought he was trying to persuade himself, not to cheat her.
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