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I don't want to apologize to you for telling you how much you are to me. I want to appeal to you to give me a chance to work for you; that's all. I want you to give me some hope, if you can. I know I am asking a great deal even in that. I realize how unreasonable it is. You've only seen me a few times; and yet I'm not going to apologize for it. I must have it over with; I can't go on in this way.
Lord Orville himself seemed thunderstruck: I turned from him, and went into the parlour: he followed me, saying, "Must I now apologize to Miss Anville for the liberty of my interference?-or ought I to apologize, that I did not, as I wished, interfere sooner?"
"Now about my being a beast." "Pax oh, pax!" cried Sefton; "make it pax. I'll give up! Let me off! I'm broke! I can't stand it!" "Ugh! Just when we were gettin' our hand in!" grunted McTurk. "They didn't let Clewer off, I'll swear." "Confess apologize quick!" said Stalky. From the floor Sefton made unconditional surrender, more abjectly even than Campbell He would never touch any one again.
He does not begin by saying, "I know you are used to having better things than this but I suppose you can stand it for one meal." He simply ushers his guest into the dining room as cordially and with as little affectation as if he were the paying teller of the Smithville bank. No one need ever apologize when he has done or given his best.
And his gaze haunted the ridge and furrow of the horse's carcase, while the living horse looked round and down at its dead fellow, from whose hollow face a ragged forelock drooped in the dust. "I must go and apologize to that old man," said Mr. Lavender aloud, "for no doubt he is even more distressed than I am."
I saw her name first on the gravestone and it made an impression on me because it was so odd and old-fashioned 'Patience, wife of Edwin Smith. I only mention this to show you how little Dad talks about himself, but it was odd I should find it out that way, wasn't it? But there! I don't suppose you're interested in the Smith genealogy. I apologize.
"Pray, do not apologize to me in particular!" replied Miss Beaufort; "but, to be frank, I think it probable she would have shown her temper less had that little admonition been given in private. I doubt not she has committed something wrong, yet " "Yes, something very wrong," interrupted Miss Dundas, reddening at this rebuke; "both Mr. Lascelles and Lord Berington there "
"She will soon be back." I smiled at his optimism. "We saw her to-day," Quarles went on; and he told the girl's story in detail, and in a manner which suggested that my mistake in having her arrested was almost criminal. The contessa seemed to expect me to apologize, but when I remained silent she became practical. "Still, I do not see my pearls, Monsieur Quarles."
It doesn't seem to impress me much when you throw it down, though doubtless it was ver-ee dramatically done, oh yes, indeed, ver-ee dramatic. See here. I know you, and I know your type, my young friend, and I haven't " "Look here. Why do I get picked out as the goat, the one to apologize? Because I stood up first? When Prexy said to?" "Oh, not at all.
"Nevertheless I must apologize for my son's exploding such an uncommonly violent bomb at a quiet garden party," said the higher mathematician. "I suspect he underrated its effect." His tone was apologetic, but there was no excess of contrition in it. "What I think is that Captain Baster's notion of humor is catching; and that it affected Erebus and Wiggins," said Sir Maurice amiably.
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