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"Don't apologize, Doctor," returned the other, with perfect courtesy. "We all know that you are the busiest man among us." His face, as he spoke, was as pale as Burns's was high-coloured, and Ellen recognized that here were the two sorts of wrath in apposition, the "red" sort and the "white." And looking at Dr. Van Horn's face, it seemed to her that she still preferred the red.

The lady-principal, however, mistook the continued silence for conscious guilt. "Then I demand that an ample apology be made to Miss Irvine now, in my presence," she said once more in frigid tones. "Come, Miss Blake; my time is too precious to be trifled with." Winnie's eyes sparkled, and raising her small head defiantly, she replied, "I decline to apologize, Mrs. Elder.

Her "dear president" vouchsafed not a word in reply; he motioned to his compeers to rise, and they all betook themselves to their hall of conference. When the door had closed behind them, Marianna addressed her friends. "My lords," said she, "I must apologize for the exceeding dulness of the scene you have just witnessed.

"You mean, dear Miss Brandon," interrupted Mauleverer, squeezing her hand with respectful tenderness, "that you must beg me to apologize for my inadvertent expression. I do most sincerely. If I had felt less interest in your happiness, believe me, I should have been more guarded in my language."

Catherine, humbled and ashamed, was going to apologize for her question, but he prevented her by saying, "Novels are all so full of nonsense and stuff; there has not been a tolerably decent one come out since Tom Jones, except The Monk; I read that t'other day; but as for all the others, they are the stupidest things in creation."

This made her burst into tears, and I had to apologize and to promise to continue forwarding her business by way of consolation, and so she left me in a calmer mood. Half an hour afterwards her husband came with twenty-five Louis I had lent him on a gold snuff-box set with diamonds, and proposed that I should lend two hundred Louis on a ring worth four hundred.

The hand that held the fatal letter fell heavily by his side; his head drooped upon his chest; he did not move or speak for many minutes. His young visitor watched him with curiosity and interest that gradually grew into anxiety. At length he made a motion to attract the duke's attention dropped a book upon the floor, picked it up, and arose to apologize.

But I tell you now, I ain't going to stay here to see it. I'm going to clear out!" He turned toward the door, and she called after him anxiously: "Dan, come back here this minute. Where are you going?" He paused in the doorway, his jaw set and a steady light in his eyes. "I am going now," he said, "to apologize to the man I hit yesterday for telling the truth about you!"

The dog, which came often with Miss Anne to the cinder-hill cabin, gave one loud bay, and then sprang playfully upon Stephen, as if to apologize for his mistake in barking at him.

Should a lady, however, stop in meeting a gentleman, etiquette requires him to stop also, no matter how great his haste. If he is really unable to stop any time, he must at least pause long enough to state this fact, and apologize for leaving her in such haste. When a lady wishes to end a conversation in the street, she should bow slightly, and the gentleman must at once take his leave.