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More over, your Majesty has been graciously pleased to pardon several of these corsairs, in consequence of which they have become so impudent as to swarm everywhere, even in the river Thames, where they are perpetually pillaging honest merchantmen."
He doubts it is needful for him to have a pardon for his last year's actions, all which he did without commission, and at most but the King's private single word for that of Bergen; but he dares not ask it at this time, lest it should make them think that there is something more in it than yet they know; and if it should be denied, it would be of very ill consequence.
'They have all received of his fulness, and grace for grace'; and will he shut thee out? Or is his grace so far gone, and so near spent, that now he has not enough to pardon, and secure, and save one sinner more? For shame, leave off this unbelief! Wherefore, dost thou think, art thou told of all this, but to encourage thee to come to the throne of grace?
"Don't you recall, you held it in one hand behind your back and told Billy to choose?" Billy was Mollie's "chummy" name. "That's so," admitted Grace. "And Mollie didn't guess right. I beg your pardon, Mollie. It's so warm, and the prickly heat bothers me so that I can hardly think of anything but that I'm going in and get some talcum powder.
He was a young man, and his expression told me that he did not much like the duty that his chief had put upon him. Addressing me, he said: 'Pardon, monsieur, you are a stranger in this country? 'Yes, I am. 'Will you please tell me your quality? In reply I asked him if he wished to see my papers. 'If it will not vex you, he said. His manners were quite charming.
"I found him tamperin' with the wires near the dynamos," the first assistant engineer was saying. "I niver liked his looks annyway, if ye'll pardon me, sir, fer sayin' it. And whin I asked him what he was about, he thried to git away. I grabbed him, and he showed fight. I guess I give 'im all he wanted, though, that last time." "So?" said the captain, in a voice so stern it made Joe wince.
But she added, while she affectionately turned her husband's pillows and gave him another of his white pillules: "I will submit to the worst to-day for I am in the wrong. I have already asked your pardon, worthy Haschim, and I do so again, with all my heart."
'Pardon the question, my dear friend, said the host in an extremely gentle tone, 'but are you quite sure of these things? 'Altogether sure, was the answer. 'I have been in the Maestro's service since he first began to be famous. He saved my life at the risk of his own, and I have served him five years come the Feast of Saint John. I therefore know that he is not a Sicilian counterfeiter!
Vincent's pardon and yours; but I hope to be forgiven, since I'm now come entirely round to my Lady Anne Percival's way of thinking, which I learnt from good authority at Oakly-park; and I am now convinced and confident, Miss Portman, that every thing is for the best."
"Nobody is perfect." "No, papa; and so all have come short of the glory of God." "Well, then, I don't see what you are going to do, Daisy." "Christ has paid our debt, papa." "Then nobody need do anything." "Oh, no, papa; for the free pardon that is made out for you and me the white robe that Christ counsels us to buy of Him waits for our acceptance and is given only on conditions.
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