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She will confess, you will make her, your skill is unrivalled, and you will then admit, M. le Juge, that I was right in my suspicions." "Ah, well, produce her! We shall see," said the Judge, somewhat mollified by M. Floçon's fulsome flattery. "I will bring her to your chamber of instruction within an hour, M. le Juge," said the detective, very confidently.
One thing, however, that disturbed even my present equanimity a little was the necessity of meeting the custom-house at the Porta del Popolo; but my past experience warranted me in believing that even these ogres might be mollified by the magic touch of a scudo; and so it proved.
If I had known his character, some sodium bromide in his morning feed might, by this time, have mollified his obstinacy. "If I could be free of this blanket," said I, fumbling at the pin behind me, "I would get out and lead him into the road." "You could not do it," said Miss Burroughs. "You might pull his head off, but he wouldn't move. I have seen him tried."
"What in the world are you trying to get at, Simmy Dodge?" she cried. "Are you really asking me to marry you?" "Certainly," he said, far from mollified. She leaned back in the chair and regarded him in silence for a moment. "Is it possible that you have not heard that I am to be married this month?" she asked, and there was something like pity in her manner. "Heard it? Of course, I've heard it.
But Ada refused to be mollified, and she remained indifferent to the shrieks of delight that greeted the first powdering of snow. Thanksgiving morning saw the first flakes. The holiday was happily celebrated at Shadyside, very few of the girls going home. Mrs. Eustice preferred to add the time to the Christmas vacation, and the girls had found that this plan added to their enjoyment.
The First Consul spoke at first of signal vengeance; but the Senate of Hamburg sent him a memorial, justificatory of its conduct, and backed the apology with a sum of four millions and a half, which mollified him considerably.
"How's that?" was Anderson's rebuke. "I mean Mr. Crow," corrected Ed, with a nervous glance at Rosalie, who had been his companion for the evening. "Oh, I'm jest so-so," remarked Anderson, mollified. "How was the party?" "It wasn't a party, Daddy Crow," laughed Rosalie, seating herself in front of him on the porch rail. "It was an experience meeting. Alf Reesling has reformed again.
A person who had taken offence at something in one of his sermons, and had abused him passionately, both in speech and in writing, chanced to wound himself severely, whereupon he at once sent his wife to act as surgeon; and when the man, having recovered, came to return thanks and presents, he would accept nothing, but detained him to a friendly meal, "and," says Mather, "by this carriage he mollified and conquered the stomach of his reviler."
These words mollified Reginald in some degree, since they showed that, after all, this new trouble might, as Leon said, have arisen from old machinations, as their natural result, and did not necessarily involve any new action on Leon's part. "I'll go," said Reginald, "and you shall go with me; but if I find that you have played me false this time, by Heaven, I'll crush you!"
"Why certainly; it's my place to cook for all the parties you choose to make. It's not my place to dictate how the victuals is to be used." "You do not understand me. It is not here that I wish to entertain my friends. Mr. Winthrop has given his permission, on condition you are willing." She was greatly mollified at this and responded heartily.
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