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'It's going to be frightfully hot to-day, she said, looking round her with a troubled face at the glaring road, at the dusty patch of vines beyond it, at the burnt grass below the garden wall. 'Mr. Manisty! you will make Eleanor go next Friday? you won't let her put it off for anything? She turned to him, in entreaty, the colour dyeing her pure cheek and throat. 'I will do what I can.
"This is the prettiest low-born lass that ever Ran on a green sward." Winter's Tale. It was the summer of 1283; the babe of Carnarvon had been accepted as the native prince, speaking no tongue but Welsh, and Edward had since been employed in establishing his dominion over Wales. His Whitsuntide was kept by the Queen's special entreaty at St. Winifred's Well.
He stretched his hand across the table, and all the gnawing hunger at his heart leaped into his voice, that trembled with entreaty. "For God's sake give me your hand just once, as proof that you forgive my share in this cruel, dastardly outrage." "Do not touch me. When we shake hands it must be as seal upon a very sacred compact, which you are not yet ready to make."
But O Mesdemoiselles, she continued, clasping her hands in entreaty, 'you do not know how I should like to come down into your garden and play with you, or at least, as she suddenly recollected that such tall young ladies were rather past the age for mere 'playing, 'walk about and talk with you. I have watched you so many days, and I am so lonely.
I have heerd of your shootin'. I give in; you kin beat me. For God's sake, do not risk it; as you care for her, do not!" "There is no risk. I will show you." "No, no! If you must, then, let me! I will hold it. Oh, let me!" stammered the hunter, in tones of entreaty. "Hollo, Billee! What's the dratted rumpus?" cried Rube, coming up. "Hang it, man! let's see the shot. I've heern o' it afore.
A spare shilling was not often seen in the hut of the poor old man, dependent chiefly upon alms, and in want, not unfrequently, of the bare necessaries of life. But the loving mother could not listen to her son's anxious entreaty without trying to assist him, and by dint of superhuman exertions she managed to get him sevenpence.
After he had been a month in this black hole Mr. Judson was taken ill with fever, and after much entreaty she was permitted to move him to a little bamboo cell by himself, and to go in daily to feed him and to give him medicine. The darkest hour had not yet come!
"And remember, I forbid you to go to inform my mother." She turned back, embarrassed, and in a voice of entreaty, said: "Oh, monsieur, Mme. Felicite has made me promise so often " But he was inflexible. All his life he had treated his mother with deference, and he thought he had acquired the right to defend himself against her in the hour of his death.
The old woman, moving from side to side with the unhappy restlessness which characterises the insane, dropped over the side of the bed the object she had been nursing in her arms, and looked at the girl with the dumb entreaty of an animal. The girl stooped down by the side of the bed, picked up the fallen article, and restored it to the mad woman. It was a doll. Mr.
For if the first little prick of conscience, a warning and a guide, be neglected, the next will go a great deal deeper. The voice which, before you do the wrong thing, says to you, 'Do not do it, in tones of entreaty and remonstrance, speaks, after you have done it, more severely and more bitterly.
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