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But the Phoenix would not translate this request into the copper-coloured language; and when the savages had recovered their breath, they implored their queen to leave her white escort and come with them to their huts. 'The finest shall be yours, O queen, said they. 'Well so long! said the cook, getting heavily on to her feet, when the Phoenix had translated this request.
"Oh, no! Oh, no!" he protested. "Not so bad as that, my dear. This is the last night, and it's hard to manage, as the last night always is. I suppose the last night on earth " "Basil!" she implored. "Well, I won't, then. But what I want is to see a Dutch lugger. I've never seen a Dutch lugger, and "
Once again the red-topped wagon got started, this time in earnest. Through the mud and slush of Bean Alley, past the Dump Heap, across the Common, the sturdy little mare dashed furiously. "Don't breathe through your mouth, Chick!" implored Miss Lady. "And don't be afraid. All you have to do is to tell what you saw. Don't keep back anything, tell it just as you told it to me."
In the sobbing which shook him there was no pain, only a suddenly aroused immense love, in the presence of which other things are as nothing. With that great weeping he had simply implored forgiveness of that beloved one, set aside because he had grown so old, had become so accustomed to his solitary rock, and had so forgotten it that in him even longing had begun to disappear.
I will make you certain proposals, and you shall nod your head, towards that of the estimable beast with two pairs of legs on which you are mounted, as soon as one of them takes your fancy." "Let me go on my way," the slave implored, with growing anxiety. "Go, by all means, but I go with you," retorted Verus, "until I have hit on the thing that suits you.
When it ended that half-articulate convulsion of love and anguish she found herself sitting on the sofa beside him, his head on her breast, his hand clasping hers. 'Do you wish me to go, Catherine? he asked her gently, 'to Algiers? Her eyes implored for her. 'Then I will, he said, but with a long sigh.
Seeing that I was still set upon departure: "Hold on a bit, Knox," he implored. "Don't go yet. There is something I want to ask you, something very important." He crossed to a sideboard and mixed himself a stiff whisky-and-soda. He asked me to join him, but I refused. "Won't you sit down again?" I shook my head. "You came to my place at Katong once," he began abruptly.
When this hope failed him, he yielded to the entreaties of those persons who implored him as the only person in a position to do it, to check France on that fateful descent which must bring her from the Republic to a Dictatorship, and so on to invasion, and to mutilation.
Little Hotchkiss was in a state of fever; he alternately twitched and examined the revolver, and a fear that the two movements might be synchronous kept me uneasy. He produced and dilated on the scrap of pillow slip from the wreck, and showed me the stiletto, with its point in cotton batting for safekeeping. And in the intervals he implored Richey not to make such fine calculations at the corners.
On the way back the men must have threatened him, for when he got in town he drove to the house of some colored people who live on a corner across from the hotel and implored them to let him in, but they were afraid and refused to open the door, for by that time the men were shooting at him.
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