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Hume, during his last illness. Though in his own judgment his disease was mortal and incurable, yet he allowed himself to be prevailed upon, by the entreaty of his friends, to try what might be the effects of a long journey. A few days before he set out, he wrote that account of his own life, which, together with his other papers, he has left to your care.
We have progressed too far in knowledge, my friend, for faith. ... yet..." He hesitated a moment, then with a touch of caressing entreaty in his tone went on. ... "Thinkest thou in very truth that I shall live again?
Both sighed as they took up the burden of the vaporous Tasso to drop him; with the greater satisfaction in the expelling of their breath. 'It might be said, dear, that concession to his entreaty does not in any way countenance the sin. 'I can see, dear, how it might be read as a reproof. Their exchange of sentences followed meditative pauses; Dorothea leading. 'To one so sensitive as Victor!
Upon no less than three occasions did Callistion the first wife of the proconsul and the mother of his elder son attempt the life of Melicent; and thrice Demetrios spared the woman at Melicent's entreaty. Then one day about noon Demetrios came unheralded into Melicent's resplendent prison. Through an aisle of painted pillars he came to her, striding with unwonted quickness, glittering as he moved.
'Thou seest how much I love thee, George, he said, 'that I stay behind in a moment like this. I forget whether I told thee Harry, that Florac was under some obligation to me. I had won money of him at cards, at Quebec only playing at his repeated entreaty and there was a difficulty about paying, and I remitted his debt to me, and lighted my pipe with his note-of-hand.
The lamentation of the latter was intense and when on approaching his young master, he discovered the true nature of his accident and confessed his ignorance of all remedy, he burst into tears, and throwing himself upon the earth tore his gray woollen hair away, regardless of all entreaty on the part of Gerald to moderate his grief.
But when at length they were put into his hands, and he read of Elsie's entreaty that he would come to her, and saw by the date how long she had been ill, his distress and alarm were most excessive, and within an hour he had set out on his return, travelling night and day with the greatest possible despatch.
Peter seized by the collar a puny, crooked creature, whom he scarcely stopped to look at, and held him, as one might a cat, over the cliff-side. "Swear you'll quit the island to-night, or I'll drop you," he thundered. The creature merely screamed for mercy, and seemed unable to articulate a sentence; while Louise knelt, clasping Peter's knees in an agony of entreaty.
Although they went out from us against our earnest remonstrance and entreaty, and some of them mocking our expressions of concern for them as we stood around the boat when they were going on board, still we shall rejoice to have them home again amongst us, for they are our brethren and their sufferings grieve us to the heart.
Who has heavier loads of anxiety to endure? yet you spoil my recreation during the brief hours when I succeed in casting off the burden." Here he paused and obstinately grasped the golden handle of the pitcher again. The Queen remained silent. Contradiction would have made the obdurate sovereign empty another goblet also. Even a look of entreaty would have been out of place on this occasion.
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