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By pretending that certain words were obscure to her, she should find opportunities for coming suddenly into the room, and she should afford herself excuses for searching among his mistress's papers without awakening suspicions. 'Why, my face is too ingenuous, Katharine said. 'I am not made for playing the spy. He laughed at her. 'That is so much the better, he said.
To be sure, she never took his advice; she would say, with her pretty laugh, that she did not want him to keep her out of trouble, but only to sympathise with her afterwards. And Montague followed her; he told himself again and again that there was no excuse for Lucy; but all the while he was making excuses.
These visitors at first came in fear and trembling with visions of the Harar jail: they desired my men to return the visit by night, and made frequent excuses for apparent want of hospitality. Their apprehensions, however, soon vanished: presently they began to prepare entertainments, and, as we were without money, they willingly supplied us with certain comforts of life.
"I am not so strong as I used to be. We old fellows must to bed betimes, and leave you young ones to enjoy yourselves. No excuses good night a beautiful ball I congratulate you on the reopening of your house good night again. I will have a word with Giovanni here before I go down-stairs."
Policy made excuses for love, and every attention that I paid her, while it riveted my own chains, bound closer to me the people of the great city, who worshipped her. I found Fritz's inamorata, the Countess Helga, gathering blooms in the garden for her mistress's wear, and prevailed on her to take mine in their place.
"By Saint Andrew, My Lord Cardinal, you have committed an error. You have brought me the wrong piece." The Cross of Victory was then produced, with many apologies and excuses for the mistake, and the oath was taken while Mary's tiny hand rested on the relic beside King Louis' browned and wrinkled talon. When the ceremony was finished, the king turned to Mary and said:
It is for Theodore to make such excuses as he can for the errors of his friend." "To defend and excuse this friend of mine," said Theodore, "I fear would be a very unsatisfactory thing to try to do.
She looked forward to some excuses, and to some delay.
Helvetius took great pains to make the treatment of his theme interesting. He labored long over every chapter. His pages overflow with anecdotes, with sneers at monks, and with excuses for lust. They show the belief in the omnipotence of legislation which was common in his day.
The voice of a broomstick-witch in the clouds could not be thinner and stranger: Lord Romfrey had some such thought. Dr. Gannet was the bearer of Miss Denham's excuses to Lord Romfrey for the delay in begging him to enter the house: in the confusion of the household his lordship's card had been laid on the table below, and she was in the sick-room. 'Is my nephew a dead man? said the earl.
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