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Mostyn was talking too much to you for it to be exactly right, but you always had such a level head more level than I ever had that I thought you could take care of yourself." "Mother, please leave me alone for to-day, anyway," Dolly pleaded. "I I'm not a fool. Take Ann down-stairs. I I can't stand that noise. It makes me desperate. I hardly know what to do or say."

"There's no fear o' him. But I'll speak to him this very night." And so she did, and that so kindly, that the deacon, taking heart, pleaded his own cause, with strong hopes of success. But Janet would not suffer herself to be entreated. With tearful eyes, she told him of her fears for Marian, and said, "It would seem like forsaking the bairns in their trouble, to leave them now."

And I could so easily put her at rest by renouncing all claim upon her. 'I surmise that that you yourself would also be put at rest by such a decision? 'Don't look at me with that ironical smile, he pleaded. 'What you have said is true. And really, why should I not be glad of it?

Sad to relate of men bearing the name of Englishmen and it was hardly much better if they pleaded intoxication! they were not content to tear the young man from her grasp, they hustled her, pushed her out, dragged her in the street. 'It became me to step to her defence: she was meek, said Skepsey. 'She had a great opinion of the efficacy of quotations from Scripture; she did not recriminate.

I have no desire to take her from you I only want to take myself from you." "Sylvia," he said, "have you realized all the unhappiness this course of yours is going to bring to your people?" "Oh, don't begin that now!" she pleaded. "I know," he said, "how determined you are to punish me. But I should think you would try to find some way to spare them."

An't, said Mr Willet, putting his pipe in his mouth with an air of solemn disgust, 'an't the evidence of MY senses enough for you? 'But we haven't got it, Johnny, pleaded Parkes, humbly. 'You haven't got it, sir? repeated Mr Willet, eyeing him from top to toe. 'You haven't got it, sir? You HAVE got it, sir.

Time and distance lose their force as factors in my life. I have found and entered the lost lands of Theocritus. Beneath this black ash, touched here and there with the purple wistfulness of the passing year, Pan might have sat to play his pipes, the Cyclops might have pleaded with the graceful Galatea.

"Miss Valcour," explained the Doctor to Anna. "Oh, Doctor," she pleaded, "I want to see her! Beg them, won't you, to let her in?"

He was made prisoner; and notwithstanding all the tender pleas of their common blood, in spite of his virtues, and even of his misfortunes, which pleaded so strongly for mercy, the rigid conqueror held him in various prisons until his death, which did not happen until after a rigorous confinement of eighteen, some say twenty-seven, years.

"Can't I stay home to-morrow, mother?" pleaded Comfort, with sudden hope. "No," said her mother; "you've got to go if you're able." "Mother, can't I wear it just once?" "Don't you bring that ring up again," said her mother. "Take your candle and go right upstairs." Comfort gave a pitiful little sob.