assiduities

No assiduities 19 can win him to take the least notice of the crew, and I soon discovered, that, when the captain and myself were below, he endured many a persecution.

For his sake dowagers mince in white and silver, and at times he has to take to his bed to protect himself from their assiduities.'

Do you not feel within your own breast a repugnance to the assiduities he at all times takes pains to shew you?

Once or twice I thought of him, and with an indistinct feeling of self-reproach; but I was occupied with the assiduities of my new admirer, and had no leisure to consider of propriety.

If father and mother possess æsthetic sensibilities, these are offended probably by the plainness and the lack of graces in their offspring—bye-products merely of their economic assiduities.