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He begged for a day or two to consider the matter and was granted it, but told that if he did not comply with their wishes he would disappear for good and no one would ever be the wiser.
I would give you one if I could, but I cannot spare it. They are all that stand between me and a relapse into a state of being which I shudder to contemplate. Need we discuss it any further? I think, if you do not mind " He half rose to his feet, his eyes were searching the shadows of the garden. The professor pulled him down. "Be reasonable, Mr. Burton be reasonable," he begged.
Truly if he were Julia’s in life, he was mine in death. Did you never suspect how truly I loved Mr. Wilmot? You were blinded by your misplaced affection for me, if you did not. Julia, my noble-hearted sister Julia, knew it all. I confessed my love to her, and on my knees begged her not to go to him, but to let me take her place at his bedside.
His graceful mien won the admiration of the ladies and the envy of the gallants, and the question of his identity excited much speculation. With courtly air the Black Knight approached the Queen, knelt before her, and begged that she would deign to be his partner in the dance.
She could not rest until she sent for McLean and begged him to save Freckles from further risk, in that place of horrors. The Boss went to the swamp with his mind fully determined to do so. Freckles stood and laughed at him. "Why, Mr. McLean, don't you let a woman's nervous system set you worrying about me," he said.
He walked on and on, over mountain and moor, through valley and dense forest, until he came to a land where there was no drinking water. The inhabitants, when they heard the object of Jean's journey, begged him to ask the Sun and Moon why a well, that was the chief water supply of the district, no longer gave good water. Jean promised to do so, and resumed his journey.
Henceforth she was of a city hue. She was enamoured of every cobblestone, and she loved every man, woman, horse, and motor she passed. She tried to flirt with the tall buildings. She was afraid to leave Chicago lest she never get to New York, or find it inferior. She begged to be left there. It was plenty good enough for her.
But Dullhead begged so hard to be allowed to go that at last his father said: 'Very well, then go. Perhaps when you have hurt yourself, you may learn to know better. His mother only gave him a very plain cake made with water and baked in the cinders, and a bottle of sour beer.
Pious women brought me the news of your being near death, and begged me to come here and give you absolution you have to thank them for my presence." "Speak low, sir; my daughter is in the next room, and she would be alarmed." "Indeed! your daughter? and a man and a child too?" "Certainly." "And the man is your daughter's husband?" "Yes." "Who married them?" "He who married Adam and Eve God."
One year when the rice was ripening the man used to go and look at it every day. One evening after dusk as he was sitting quietly at the edge of the field he overheard the bonga and his wife talking. The bonga said that he was going to pay a visit to some friends but his wife begged him not to go because the rice was ripe and the farmer would be cutting it almost at once.
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