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"You and Lady Parham had agreed to make friends, and let bygones be bygones." "That was before last week." "Before Lord Parham said what annoyed you?" Kitty's eyes flamed. "Before Lord Parham humiliated me in public or tried to." "Dear Kitty, he was annoyed, and said a sharp thing; but he is an old man, and for William's sake, surely, you can forgive it. And Lady Parham had nothing to do with it."

Then, failing Gabriel, the chaplain hoped that Dr Pendle might give it to him, and if he did so, Mr Cargrim was quite willing to let bygones be bygones. He would not search out the bishop's secret at all events for the present although, if Dean Alder died, he might make a later use of his knowledge to get himself elected to the vacant post.

'For shame, Yevgeny.... Let bygones be bygones. Well, I'm ready to acknowledge before this gentleman I had that passion in my youth; and I have paid for it too! How hot it is, though! Let me sit down with you. I shan't be in your way, I hope? 'Oh, not at all, answered Arkady. Vassily Ivanovitch lowered himself, sighing, into the hay.

As she had been travelling thither, she had determined that she would say anything that he wished her to say, make any admission that might satisfy him. That she could be happy again as other women are happy, she did not expect; but if it could be conceded between them that bygones should be bygones, she might live with him and do her duty, and, at least, have her child with her.

Trying to repress the words he yet spoke on the subject, more to obtain assurance that what it had seemed to imply was not true than from a wish to pry into bygones. 'Were you really engaged to be married to that lover? he said, looking straight forward at the sea again. 'Yes but not exactly. Yet I think I was. 'O Elfride, engaged to be married! he murmured.

"As you're so good as to take it kind, sir," said the clerk of St Roque's "and, as I was a-saying, it's well known as you're always ready to hear a poor man's tale perhaps you'd let bygones be bygones, and not make no difference? That wasn't all, Mr Wentworth," he continued eagerly, as the Curate gave an impatient nod, and turned to go on.

Tom was right in that, for one person can no more quarrel without an adversary, than one person can play at chess, or fight a duel. 'I hoped you would be glad to shake hands with an old friend. Don't let us rake up bygones, said Tom. 'If I ever offended you, forgive me. She looked at him for a moment; dropped her bonnet from her hands; spread them before her altered face, and burst into tears.

Yet as he now bowed low before Angele there seemed to show in his face a very candour of surprise, of pleasure, joined to a something friendly and protective in his glance and manner. His voice insinuated that bygones should be bygones; it suggested that she had misunderstood him. It pleaded against the injustice of her prejudice. "So far from home!" he said with a smile.

'No, says she, 'I'm only on liking as it were; if I don't like them or they don't like me, I can leave any minute. 'Then leave, for God's sake, says I, 'if you've got a bit of love for me left. Let bygones be bygones, and marry me as soon as I come out of this, for it's worth something to be loved as you've loved me, Amelia, and I was always fond of you. 'What? says she.

Thus let bygones be bygones; let past differences as nothing be; and with steady eye on the real issue, let us reinaugurate the good old 'central ideas' of the republic. We can do it. The human heart is with us; God is with us.