He continued to go and come about his business as usual; but ceased to stutter, talked less, and was more obdurate in business transactions than ever before.
'You will not persist in saying that, ' rejoined the gentleman, with a voice and emphasis of kindness that might have touched a much harder and more obdurate heart.
She was obdurate, and at last the lad appeared to acquiesce in his mother's decision that the ape must be returned to Africa and the boy to school, from which he had been absent on vacation.