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Her entreaty had no effect on Tom: he only said again what he had said before; and it was not merely Tom, for the requisition was now backed by Maria, and Mr. Crawford, and Mr. Yates, with an urgency which differed from his but in being more gentle or more ceremonious, and which altogether was quite overpowering to Fanny; and before she could breathe after it, Mrs.
And as, at the same time, she again pressed her hand to her bosom with pathetic entreaty, he was suddenly silent, and casting his eyes up to heaven, he sank back on the prisoners' bench, deeply affected. Paula joyfully went on: "He has thought better of it, and given up his crazy attempt to take my guilt on himself. You see, Othman, you all see, worthy men.
He felt this, and soon calmed down; so that when, half an hour later, another man passed that way, he addressed him in tones of respect and earnest entreaty. The bandit, for such he was, seemed to be utterly unaffected; for although he must certainly have heard the appeal, he, like the others, passed on without taking the slightest notice.
Very little entreaty then sufficed a short apology for the "dereglements" of dress, and a few minutes more found them seated at table without further ceremony on either side.
They were merely a few hastily written lines of touching entreaty that he would not be angry, but would please forgive her for giving her heart to one of whom he knew nothing, and daring to let him speak to her of love; and that he would not believe anything against him until he had heard his defence. With a murmured "My poor darling! you have been too long away from your father," Mr.
If she loves him already, anything will do to make her love him more; if she does not, no entreaty will wake what is not there to be waked. Even wrong and cruelty and carelessness may increase love already rooted; but neither love, nor kindness, nor worship, will prevail to plant it.
And though he had gone thus far at her entreaty, always recognising when with her the reasonableness of her wish, after she was gone, the cross seas of his own character, created a different impression and swept the pattern of Sabina's will away. For a time the intrigue of meeting her, the planning and the plotting amused him.
"Perhaps," he says, deliberately, "it will be my most generous course to resign in favor of " "More tea, Portia?" interrupts Dulce, very quickly, in a tone that trembles ever so slightly. "No, thank you. But, Dulce, I want you near me. Come and sit here." There is anxiety, mixed with entreaty, in her tone.
The Duke of York was among the former; the King among the latter. Henry is said to have wrestled earnestly with God that no sins of his might be remembered against him, to lead to the discomfiture of his army. There was need for the entreaty.
It could only bring you misery. Dear, I must shield you, even from yourself from your own big, generous impulses which would let you join your life to mine. . . . Love is denied to us denied through my own act of long ago. But if you'll give me friendship. . . ." She could sense the sudden passionate entreaty behind the words. "Sara! Friendship is worth while such friendship as ours would be!
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