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Immediately Israel limps most deplorably, and begs the driver to give a poor cripple a lift. So up he climbs; but after a time, finding the gait of the elephantine draught-horses intolerably slow, Israel craves permission to dismount, when, throwing away his crutch, he takes nimbly to his legs, much to the surprise of his honest friend the driver.
He begs leave, then, to take this opportunity of asserting his perfect innocence of all the crimes laid to his charge, and to assure his reader that he never PANDERED TO HIS BAD TASTE, nor went one inch out of his way to introduce witch, fairy, devil, ghost, or any other of the grim fraternity of the redoubted Raw-head-and-bloody-bones.
All of the friars were there except Father Dámaso, and they wanted to go in and pay their respects to His Excellency. "His Excellency, the Governor General, begs Your Reverences to wait a moment," said the adjutant. "Walk in, young man!" The young man from Manila entered the sala, pale and trembling. Everybody was surprised. His Excellency must be irritated to dare to make the friars wait.
Besides, you know all the trappers on the company's books at Lac Bain. So he sent for you, and begs you not to worry about your fur lines, as he will pay you double what you would catch in the time you are at the Post." "And Nepeese?" said Pierrot. "M'sieu expects me to bring her?" From the stove the Willow bent her head to listen, and her heart leaped free again at DeBar's answer.
They paced it quietly in the gloom, arm in arm, and their voices under darkness. "Next month is my New York trip. All of a sudden Effie begs I should take her. We'll all go. What you say, Hattie? It'll do us good." "You take the kid, I.W. Lizzie needs watching. Yesterday I had to make her do the whole butler's pantry over. She just naturally ain't clean."
Jemmy looked at her with a good deal of surprise, and, after whiffing away the smoke, asked "And well, Rosha begs pardon Mrs. Burke is it a fair question to ax where you are bound for?" "Fair enough, Mr. Burke," she replied; "but I'm not goin' to answer it." "You're bound for a journey, ma'am, I think?" "I'm bound for a journey, sir." "Is it a long journey, Mrs. Burke?"
The only response to their representations is, "We cannot, we will not pay more!" The vast hall of the mosque resounds with their lamentations and cries of rage. Suddenly Mohammed Ali, followed by a few of his soldiers, appears on the threshold. In a loud voice he begs the people to disperse; in Bardissi's name he promises that the collection of the new tax shall not be enforced.
Miss Anna had written the following note: "A. Hardage, Esq., presents the compliments of the season to Miss Crane and begs the pleasure of her company to the ball. Crane to be hugged on the way if Hardage so desires and Hardage certainly will desire. Hardage and Crane to dance at the ball together while their strength lasts."
He does really seem to have already forgotten Cornelia's merits in one brief month, for he eulogizes Harriet in a way which rules all competition out: "Thou only virtuous, gentle, kind, Amid a world of hate." He complains of her hardness, and begs her to make the concession of a "slight endurance" of his waywardness, perhaps for the sake of "a fellow-being's lasting weal."
All this has been since then confirmed on those occasions, and they have been many, on which he has crossed our path, at one time to beg the shepherds to give him some of the food they carry, at another to take it from them by force; for when there is a fit of madness upon him, even though the shepherds offer it freely, he will not accept it but snatches it from them by dint of blows; but when he is in his senses he begs it for the love of God, courteously and civilly, and receives it with many thanks and not a few tears.
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