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But could Orion, the noblest of mankind, the idol of the whole town, so pressingly entreat her to do anything that was wrong? Did not love as he had said make it her duty to do everything that might screen him from loss or injury? It did not seem to her to be quite as it should be, but perhaps she did not altogether understand the matter; she was so young and inexperienced.

"Ah, you shall hear.... We apologize in due form: we are in despair, we entreat forgiveness for the unfortunate misunderstanding. The government clerk with the sausages begins to melt, but he, too, desires to express his sentiments, and as soon as ever he begins to express them, he begins to get hot and say nasty things, and again I'm obliged to trot out all my diplomatic talents.

'No, Ratcliffe, he resumed, 'by the memory of one I cannot name, by that blessed and saintly being from whom you derive your life, you will not, you cannot deny this last favour I ask, I entreat, I supplicate you to accord me: me, who have ever eaten of your bread, and whom your roof hath ever shrouded!

XLIII. The soldiers were all killed to a man. Marcus Rufus, the quaestor, who was left behind in the camp by Curio, having got intelligence of these things, encouraged his men not to be disheartened. They beg and entreat to be transported to Sicily. He consented, and ordered the masters of the ships to have all the boats brought close to the shore early in the evening.

But in her delirium it was still for you that she called." "Yes," said the marquis, bitterly; "her maternal instinct doubtless assured her that my presence could have saved her life." "I entreat you to banish these sad recollections," said the princess, "this misfortune is irreparable." "Tell me for the last time, truly, did not my absence cruelly affect my mother?

Tragic, in spite of a mouthful of pins which is a woman's undoubted preference, no matter how many befrilled pincushions entreat a division of spoils, she turned her face with its import of sudden things to her sister in explanation. "I was writing a letter and it blew out of the window!" "Well, if it did " "But, don't you see? I was writing to Christopher!

We had both ill-treated Love; she had treated him like a child, I had adored him after the fashion of a Jansenist. But where could we have found the proper language for the excuses we had to address to each other for the mutual forgiveness we had to entreat and to grant?

She had an instinctive fear, and stammered out: "Oh, not yet, I entreat you." He seemed disappointed and a little hurt; then he went on in a voice that was still pleading, but a little more abrupt: "Why not now, since we have got to come to it sooner or later?" She did not like him for saying that, but, perfectly resigned and submissive, she said, for the second time: "I am yours, dear."

The dear old nurse, spoken of in my opening chapter, had now been for three or four years on the other side of the veil, but had never given me the slightest sign of her presence. But she came several times during this voyage, and always with the same object namely, to entreat, and finally implore me, to give up a projected tour in Alaska.

And I entreat your reverence, for the love of our Lord, to beg this of Him for me, seeing that you have a clearer knowledge of what I am than you have allowed me to give of myself here. The Saint interrupts her history here to enter on the difficult questions of mystical theology, and resumes it in ch. xxiii. Ch. ix. section 4. Ch. xxx. sections 10 and 11. See ch. xiii. section 5.