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The philosophers had at first hesitated. Voltaire wrote to Cardinal Bernis, "Might I venture to entreat your eminence to be kind enough to tell me what I am to think about the frightful case of this Calas, broken on the wheel at Toulouse, on a charge of having hanged his own son?
The remembrance of them will one day give no less anguish to you, believe me oh, believe me! Spare me these taunts and insults, I entreat you, for the sake of both of us!" "Both of us?" repeated Edith, without being in the slightest degree affected by the words of Wiggins. "Both of us?
"And if they enchant and cripple you as they did the last time," said Sancho, "what difference will it make being on the open plain or not?" "For all that," replied Don Quixote, "I entreat thee, Sancho, to keep a good heart, for experience will tell thee what mine is."
Do not let me again lose you in the moment when you are restored to my hopes. Believe me, I distrust so much my own impatient temper, that I entreat you, as the dearest boon, do naught to awaken it at this crisis.
"Henry," she begged, "oh, listen to me! I have so much to confess, so much of which I am ashamed! And yet, with it all, I want to entreat to implore one great favour from you." Sir Henry looked down into his wife's face. "Is it one I can grant?" he asked gravely. "If you want me ever to be happy again, you will," she sobbed. "For Helen's sake as well as mine, help Mr. Lessingham to escape."
While she sleeps it is surely right that you should sleep too. Come, I will promise to call you if you are wanted." "Yes, dear madam, let me entreat of you to go to bed," said the doctor. The door was opened at this moment, and the Squire came in. "Now Elfreda," he said, coming up to his wife, "you will go and take some rest, won't you?"
Have you no other use but this for these last moments that are left you for repentance? Think, I entreat you, how dreadful a thing it is to die without absolution, with all your sins upon your head. When you stand before your Judge it will be too late to repent. Will you approach His awful throne with a jest upon your lips?" "A jest, your reverence?
Accordingly he repaired to her island, the same where afterwards Ulysses landed, as we shall see in another story. After mutual salutations, he said, "Goddess, I entreat your pity; you alone can relieve the pain I suffer. The power of herbs I know as well as any one, for it is to them I owe my change of form I love Scylla.
How shameful it would be to have to confess that you had betrayed your trust and broken the seal of the vase! Pay no attention to my idle words, I really have no desire for olives now. And probably after all this while they are no longer good. I have a presentiment that Ali Cogia will return, and what will he think of you? Give it up, I entreat."
At this, Paula again took both his hands, and exclaimed in deep and painful agitation of mind: "Say no more, I beg and entreat you.
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