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The five refugees from the storm returned the bows with some bewilderment. "I do hope you will pardon this intrusion," Miss Campbell found herself saying. "The storm was so sudden and terrible, we fled to the nearest house." One of the little Japanese ladies bowed. She was evidently the mistress of the house, but she spoke no English.

The general came in, hurried very uncommon in him, and, after saying a few words in a low voice to Lady Davenant, who immediately went up stairs, he begged pardon, was very sorry he had kept dinner waiting, but Lady Cecilia had been taken ill had fainted she was better he hoped it was nothing that would signify she was lying down he begged they would go to dinner.

The House might pardon, they said, offences committed against itself, but had no right to pardon an insult offered to the crown. Coke was sent to the Tower. The indiscretion of one man had deranged the whole system of tactics which had been so ably concerted by the chiefs of the opposition.

A letter was read from President Buchanan which, after telling of the many crimes committed by the "Mormons" against the government, offered to pardon all who would submit to the laws.

Johnson said in the morning, 'Is not this a fine lady ? There was not a word now of his 'impatience to be in civilized life ; though indeed I should beg pardon, he found it here. We had slept well, and lain long. After breakfast we surveyed the castle, and the garden. Mr.

Then they threw themselves on their knees before him, touched the ground with their foreheads, and implored his pardon, saying that they had sinned against him in ignorance and offered in atonement the price of their crime.

Indeed, that arrow, or the very fellow of it, had been shot into Christiana's heart long ago when she stood at that spot somewhat ascending where was a cross and a sepulchre; and, especially, ever since the close of Greatheart's great discourse on pardon by deed. For the hearing of that famous discourse had made her exclaim: "Oh!

'No, said Osborne, 'I beg your pardon; but it's not that; I am really out of order. I daresay my unwillingness to encounter any displeasure from my father is the consequence of my indisposition; but I'll answer for it, it is not the cause of it. My instinct tells me there is something real the matter with me. 'Come, don't be setting up your instinct against the profession, said Mr.

She begged his pardon humbly; and he declared that he had a great respect for a lady's scruples, and should be happy to meet her another evening. 'If Mrs. Beckett would allow her, said Charlotte, overpowered with gratitude: 'there would be the moon full to-morrow how delightful! He could spare a short interval between the dinner and the tea; and with this promise he took leave.

"I beg your pardon," said Carlton, meekly. "Of course I don't know anything about it." He had been waked out of the spell which the night and the tizanes had placed upon him as completely as though some one had shaken him sharply by the shoulder. "I bow," he said, "to your superior knowledge. I know nothing about it." "No; you are quite right.