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"Candidly, this corner is not all right." "With such pruning you'll never get fruit." Bouvard was obliged to answer that he did not care a jot for fruit. As they walked past the hedge of trees, he said with a sly air: "Ah! here's a lady that puts us out of countenance: a thousand excuses!" It was a well-seasoned joke; everyone knew "the lady in plaster."
"I am going to Judy's party," she declared, "and I am going to get mother to write a note to Miss Mary." Many were the notes that went to Miss Mary that day. All sorts of excuses were given by the ambitious mothers, who would not have had their offspring miss the opportunity of seeing the inside of the most exclusive house in Fairfax for all the school entertainments in the world! And Miss Mary!
There was no loophole here for excuses or getting off, "Whatsoever ye do." Did I wish it otherwise? No, I did not. I was content with the terms of service; but now about dancing, or rather, the dancing party? "In the name of the Lord Jesus." Could I go there in that name? as the servant of my Master, busy about His work, or taking pleasure that He had given me to take? That was the question.
Why need I do it to-day, just because some strangers may call whom I have never seen before?" It was the first time that the girl had objected to do what she was told, and Mrs Asplin was both surprised and hurt by the tone in which she spoke a good deal puzzled too, for Peggy was by no means indifferent to pretty frocks, and as a rule fond of inventing excuses to wear her best clothes.
When the old red brick and the green trees say to you hidden things, and the vega and the mountains are stretched before you with a new significance, when at last the white houses with their brown tiles, and the labouring donkey, and the peasant at his plough, appeal to you so as to make, as it were, an exquisite pattern on your soul, then you may begin to find excuses for yourself.
The man outside was talking in a shrill, high voice, and the woman in a softer voice was making excuses for not asking him to go in. One of her little ones was ill of a fever, she said, and sleeping, and her house, too, was in confusion, and could she hand him out something to eat? "A poor place Badenoch nowadays!" said the man, petulantly.
You are very amiable, madame, I replied stiffly. 'All my excuses, madame, said she, turning away. 'No, no! I exclaimed. 'I am wrong. Do not go. Someone is ill very ill. If you would She entered. 'Where? What is it? she inquired. 'He is in the bedroom here. We both spoke breathlessly, hurrying to the bedroom, after I had fetched the lamp. 'Wounded? He has done himself harm? Ah!
To make us pity his characters when they are vile or love them when they are noxious, to invent excuses for them in situations where they cannot be excused in a single word, to lie about his characters this is for the dramatist the one unpardonable sin.
I hurried down on to the little fish-wharf a wooden structure facing the sea hoping to find something more cheering in the view of the little bay, with its bold cliffs, and the busy scene where the cobbles were drawn up on the shingle. Here my spirits revived, and I began to find excuses for the painters.
If it should fall out so unfortunately that she is not married before she is five or six-and-twenty, it will be extremely hard to marry her at all. When a girl reaches that age, people want to know why she has been so long on hand. We are a good deal talked about in our set. We have come to the end of all the ordinary excuses 'She is so young.
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