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Now your people won't have to be importuning the War Department; the leave shall come from this end of the line." The lieutenant seems about to turn again as though to thank his commander when there comes an interruption the voice of the sergeant of the guard close at hand. He holds forth a card; salutes, and says: "A gentleman inquiring for Colonel Putnam."
Temple, with all the will in the world, had begun to stagger. At length, after marching seemingly half the night, they halted by common consent before the house of a prominent Democrat who shall be nameless, and, after some minutes of vain importuning, Nick, with a tattoo on the drum, marched boldly up to the gate and into the yard. A desperate cunning came to my aid.
Would you make of the prince royal a travelling musician, who must play before the Jew, in order to soften his heart? would you ? Ah, Fredersdorf," said he, interrupting himself, as his valet approached him in a dusty travelling-suit, "have you just arrived from Berlin?" "Yes, your highness; and as I was told who was importuning your highness, I came in without changing my dress.
Year after year, sickness proved her defense for all assaults of importuning duty. Sickness, weakly accepted at first, later grew, and as an octopus, entwined its incapacitating tentacles about and slowly strangled a life into worthlessness. "Your daughter will have to leave Alton for nine months. Six of these she will spend on a Western ranch; for three months she will work in the city slums.
This appeared to satisfy Clarke, who was very anxious to be something, and had long been importuning Bonaparte for an appointment. A day or two after the news of the battle of Hohenlinden M. Maret came to present for Bonaparte's signature some, decrees made in Council.
The goddess of fortune sometimes blesses the persistent even before they begin to persist perhaps from sheer weariness at the remembrance of previous importuning. Victoria, on a brand-new and somewhat sensitive five-year-old, was coming out of the stone archway when Mr. An exhibition of horsemanship followed, on Victoria's part, which Mr. Crewe beheld with admiration.
But upon their importuning him for one which he had not promised, he issued a proclamation upbraiding them for their scandalous impudence; at the same time telling them, "I shall now give you nothing, whatever I may have intended to do."
Nor did Alice fail to notice that about the same time, Barnes, on the pretence of arranging the room for the evening, would strive to drive her from her writing-table, and beds were made and unmade, dresses were taken out of the wardrobe, and importuning conversations were begun.
Further and frantic importuning of the cold and unresponsive wire presently was silenced by a new voice, little like that of Shaik Tsin. "Hello? Who's there? I say: that you, Prince Victor?" Involuntarily Victor cried: "Karslake!" "What gorgeous luck! I've been wanting a word with you all evening." "What has happened? Why did Shaik Tsin ?"
It was couched in the most affectionate and tender language, importuning him to return; and depicting, in the darkest colours, the sufferings he must endure if he survived the attempt to reach Quebec. It affected young Burr very sensibly, insomuch that he shed tears. But his destiny was fixed.
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