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If he had been at school, perhaps no one would ever have heard of them, 'Though I don't say, added the good man, casting a new light on the subject, 'that it would have been better for him in the end. Then, quite humbly, for he knew my mother especially had a disdain for trade, he asked what my father would think of letting him give Clarence work in the office for the present.
She did everything humbly; she even let Louisa order her about. But before the end, Eliza had come to be restless when she was not there. Now, however, Eliza knew no more, and the little widow sat gazing at her with the tears on her cheeks. John, too, felt his eyes wet. But after half an hour, when there was still no change, he was turning away to go back to bed, when the widow touched his arm.
"Is there so much difference, after all, where one is sold, just so long as the price is satisfactory to all concerned?" "You are very unkind, Mr. Chase," she said with quiet dignity. "I do not deserve your sarcasm." "I humbly plead for forgiveness," he said, suddenly contrite. "It was beastly." "American wit, I imagine you call it," she said scornfully. "I don't care to talk with you any longer."
He opened at once, and a man of about fifty, dressed in black from head to foot, entered, humbly bowing, and carefully shut the door behind him.
Here the grateful woman's tears ran down so fast that she could not go on. She wiped them with the corner of her apron, and humbly begged pardon for making so free.
He put out his hand as if to touch her. 'Forgive you! he said humbly, pushing it stubbornly back into his pocket again. 'Oh, Sheila, the forgiveness is all on your side. You know I have nothing to forgive. A long silence fell between them. 'Then, to-night, at last began Sheila wearily, drawing back, 'we say nothing to Alice, except that you are too tired just nervous prostration to see her.
You must therefore exert superhuman powers to guard the Cause of God, and beg humbly and with a contrite heart for help from the Kingdom on High.
Poor, self-condemned Slagg admitted that he had not, and humbly attended to Flinn's instructions, after which they proceeded on their way; but it might have been observed that Flinn kept a corner of his eye steadily on his new friend during the remainder of that day, while the attenuated black kept so close to Slagg's elbow as to render the pointing of the muzzle of his gun at him an impossibility.
If they were let loose in the courtyard and recognized as carriers, a bowman could easily bring them down. But now he saw a way to elude suspicion. "I have a trick," he ventured humbly, "which is most amusing, but it requires a large shell or cofyn of pastry. When this pie is cut, live birds fly out. But perhaps it would not be convenient to have your lordship's cook troubled with this?"
"I know not what thou hast seen or heard, but promise, on thine honour, that thou wilt speak no word to any man, save in confession only, while I bear arms for France." Then humbly, and with tears, I vowed as she had bidden me, whereto she only said "Come, we loiter, and I have much to do, for the day is short." But whether the birds sang again, or stinted, I know not, for I marked it not.
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