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And if my niece still persists in bringing shame upon us all I must beg you to conduct me back to our hotel I wash my hands of her and shall no longer own her as my sister's child, come" At this, Stella gave a pitiful little cry and turned tender, beseeching eyes to her lover, and the sound of her voice touched that chord which was fine in Eustace Medlicott's heart.
Maggie turned rather pale; this direct question seemed not easy to answer. But her eyes met Philip's, which were in this moment liquid and beautiful with beseeching love. She spoke with hesitation, yet with sweet, simple, girlish tenderness. "I think I could hardly love any one better; there is nothing but what I love you for."
Not a leaf was stirring on the surrounding trees, but the mango rustled and trembled ominously. "See, Kali! I was right!" whispered Piang. No superstitious horror pervaded the hut where the four men watched, but in every other house Moros fell upon their faces, beseeching Allah to protect them from Bal-Bal. The capricious moon plunged into a shadowy cloud again.
Still, she found the frequentation of churches soothing and gave much and often to the mildly beseeching Little Sisters of the Poor when they made their rounds in town or suburbs. "What do you think about Religion, Viv old girl?" she said one day in the Eastertide of 1912, when Vivie was spending a delicious fortnight at Villa Beau-séjour.
While the battle raged with great fury on both sides, King Edward was sending out his orders from a windmill from which he could overlook the progress of the fight. Presently a messenger came from the Earl of Warwick, beseeching the king to send aid to his son, the Black Prince. 'Is my son killed? asked the king. 'No, Sire, please God, replied the messenger. 'Is he wounded? 'No, Sire.
Night was approaching what to do she did not know. She had a plain, worn, old gold ring on her finger; she took it off, offered it to the ferry-master, who would not take it, though she told him she found her money gone and would redeem it next day. She went back in the ladies' room and told it to the Lord, beseeching his assistance.
She pointed out to him Monpavon waiting, standing near the Nabob who, from afar, was gazing at his excellency with the beseeching, submissive eyes of a big, good-tempered mastiff. The Minister of State then remembered the object which had brought him. He bowed to the young girl and returned to Monpavon, who was able at last to present to him "his honourable friend, M. Bernard Jansoulet."
"They quite approved. You see, I knew you so well that I would not have ventured to speak to you without their sanction." "You were right," she said softly; and then she looked at him in a beseeching way that made Richard say: "You would like me to leave you alone for a little, would you not?" "If you please that is, if you do not mind." "I will go, then.
And in this tone he swaggered on. Then suddenly he came quite close to Douglas, as if he wanted to put a pistol to his head, crying, "Then will you take shares in it sir?" Douglas caught a glance from his wife, who quietly pointed towards Frau Elsbeth, and made him a beseeching sign; then he said, half amused, half angry, "I don't mind."
A look in Josepha's face made the Baroness feel that she had wounded the woman from whom she hoped for so much, and she looked at her. Her beseeching eyes extinguished the flash in Josepha's; the singer smiled. It was a wordless dialogue of pathetic eloquence.
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