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"No; that's what I been driving at all along. I want you and Miss Nell to come to some compromise before he gets here." "What sort of compromise? Haven't I swallowed my pride and promised to say nothing if she comes back? Does she want me to get down on my knees and apologize?" "No. That's the trouble. She don't want you to do anything.
Angela would say, "Certainly, to be sure," in front of the guests, but when they were alone there would be tears and reproaches and firm declarations that she would not stand it. "Well, I won't do it any more," Eugene would apologize. "I forgot, you know." Still he wanted Angela to get a maid and let him bring all who would come.
"I must apologize, Father," he began, "that you had to come for me. I should not have let such a thing happen. But I thought it best not to break in upon you after " Mark stopped, deeply chagrined at having almost touched what must be a painful subject to the priest. But Father Murray smiled indulgently. "Don't, please, Mark. I am quite reconciled to that now.
When you are not the one who should apologize first, when you are less to blame than he, be you the one to apologize first, and see how quickly his noble nature will abase itself, and rush to meet you, and how sure and glorious and complete the reconciliation will be! I never can blame people who refuse to accept an apology in the shape of flowers when the wound has been given in words.
"Well, I was to have written to you, and I never did," recommenced Miss Buff. "Out of sight, out of mind: don't apologize!" But Miss Buff would explain and extenuate her broken promise: "The fact is, my hands are almost too full: what with the school and the committee, the organ and church, the missionary club and my district, I am a regular lay-curate. Then there is Mr.
Why not admit the truth? He had had a crack on the head the same night as Hawksley; only, he had been struck by an idea, often more deadly than the butt of a pistol. He would apologize for that roaring exit from the dining room. The poor friendless devil! He bent toward the green stones again. In the living room Hawksley sat in a chair, the fiddle across his knees. He understood now.
I gasped and started to apologize for not looking where I was going when I saw that it was Sergeant Mullins. Then we both laughed and he picked up my package and offered to see me safely back to the Hostess House. Now what are you laughing at, Mollie?"
"Has locked herself in," said Lady Busshe. Willoughby threw her a smile. It made them intimate. This was an advantage against the world, but an exposure of himself to the abominable woman. Dr. Middleton came up to Mr. Dale to apologize for not presenting his daughter Clara, whom he could find neither in nor out of the house. "We have in Mr.
"I assume that in making your important appointments you will consult those of us who have stood sponsor for you, not only to the party but to the country. It would be very humiliating to me if I should insist upon your nomination and election and then should for four years have to apologize for what I had done."
Apologize instantly, sir, or leave my house." "I can certainly apologize, Mr.
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