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The magician, to dissemble the better, took it after a great deal of entreaty, as if she was very much averse to having it, but at last taking the china cup, and shaking her head, as if she did great violence to herself, swallowed the liquor. When she had lain down again, the two women covered her up.
This mildest and meekest of girls and wives was not to be moved a hairsbreadth by all argument or entreaty, or insistence on a husband's rights. A great, sudden anger came over the man. He lifted his hand and for one moment it seemed to Theodosia as if he meant to strike her. Then he dropped it with the first oath that had ever crossed his lips. "You listen to me," he said thickly.
But was it all true?... To part! Why? Why?... And as he stretched his arms out to her in the vehemence of his entreaty Luna became paler still, huddling together timidly, her eyes dilated with fear. It was impossible for their love to continue. She must look upon all the past as a beautiful dream; perhaps the best of her life... but the moment of waking had come.
Tell me all about it, exactly what you have done." And at each successive Station of this Calvary of entreaty, Monsignor Nani, who seemed to listen with an air of rapture, exclaimed: "But that's very good, that's capital! Oh! your affair is progressing. Yes, yes, it's progressing marvellously well."
The great physician Erasistratus, from whom he first sought help, had refrained, at her entreaty and her father's, from refusing to aid him, but indignantly sent him away when he persisted in the declaration that it would be impossible for him to remain for months secluded from all society and subsist for weeks on scanty fare.
It would be difficult to paint the surprise of the two sisters, and the anger of the soldier, at this unexpected visit. Rushing upon Loony, Dagobert seized him by the collar, and exclaimed: "Who gave you leave to introduce any one here without my permission?" "Pardon, M. Dagobert!" said Loony, throwing himself on his knees, and clasping his hands with an air of idiotic entreaty.
Our obedience will then be glad when we feel the force of, and yield to, that gentle, persuasive entreaty, 'I beseech you, brethren! by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice. There is 'one Sacrifice for sin for ever' which never can be repeated, nor exhausted, nor copied.
Till that time, sir," she said, addressing Bucklaw, "let me be thus far beholden to you, that you will beg my mother to forbear me upon this subject." "I will make it my particular entreaty to Lady Ashton," said Bucklaw.
See the lights in the windows. Everyone wants to show that he rejoices in the good news. Our house mustn't remain dark either." "Don't hurry so. Barbara will attend to it, and how soon we must part! Yet you said that I was dear to you." "Don't torture me," cried the young wife, with pathetic entreaty. "I will not torture you, Maria, but you must hear me.
Uncle, don't listen to him! he hasn't been in a decent humour since the Evelyns went away." She knelt down before him and laid her hands upon his, and looked up in his face to bring all her plea the plea of most winning sweetness of entreaty in features yet flushed and trembling.
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