Perhaps,' said Bounderby, staring with all his might at his so quiet and assuasive father-in-law, 'you know where your daughter is at the present time!'

For Truth and Pity then were young, And walk'd in simple, narrow bounds; Affection's meek, assuasive tongue, Had sweet, but most capricious sounds.

In parts of humour, too, she had a manner of blending her assuasive softness, even with the gay, the lively, and the alluring.'