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The third, he was observed in consultation with the local editor, and owned he was in two minds about purchasing the press and paper. "It's a kind of a hold for an idle man," he said pleadingly; "and if the section was to open up the way it ought to, there might be dollars in the thing."
Part of the cross still remains surmounting a fragment of a wall." He climbed into the coach and was about to give the word to start again, when Betty spoke up, hesitatingly, pleadingly but emphatically: "Please wait a moment. I want to see it." I followed Betty when she got out of the coach, and, as we approached the shrine, she exclaimed: "Doctor Lilly was right! There is no snow on the shrine.
"You will be careful?" she said pleadingly. "For your sake," I replied, "I shall." "Not for my sake." "Then for your brother's." "No." Her voice had sunk to a whisper. "For your own." A COOL breeze met us, blowing from the lower reaches of the Thames. Far behind us twinkled the dim lights of Low's Cottages, the last regular habitations abutting upon the marshes.
You and I never had a falling out." "Not even the night you gave that luau when you were twenty-one and insisted on breaking the glassware after every toast. But of course you paid for it." "Handsomely," he asserted almost pleadingly. "Handsomely," she agreed.
"Mama," Alice exclaimed, suddenly, clasping a warm hand over her mother's trembling one, and looking at her with all love and reassurance, "you know how Chris and I love you, don't you?" Tears came into Mrs. Melrose's eyes. "Of course I do, lovey," she faltered. "Mama, you know how we would stand behind you how anxious we are to share whatever's worrying you!" Alice went on, pleadingly.
Then she looked up suddenly, first at Angelo, her glance travelling to Vanno almost pleadingly before she spoke. "I should love to go," she said to him, emphatically. "Only, I do think it would be so much more proper and better in every way for me to call on on Miss Grant first alone, without either of you. Do let me. It will be far more of a compliment, I assure you. And she will prefer it."
"It will be a great sin in the Lord's sight, Andra," he said pleadingly, "these wranglings among his own people. 'Peace be within thy walls, oh Zion! that will be the will of the Master and, indeed, I will be thinking if we would jist all be of the right mind, this organ would be a source of blessing, and like David's harp that drove the evil spirits from Saul." Andrew gave a derisive snort.
"How delightful it must be to whirl around so!" "Will you not try it with me, Fraulein Carmen?" he urged pleadingly. "I cannot dance; at least, not like that!" she returned, turning her beaming countenance towards him. "Oh, it is very easily learned; just trust yourself to my guidance.
When we descended the stairs we found a smoking-hot breakfast on the table. Mr. Chapman was nowhere to be seen, and Mrs. Chapman was cutting bread with a sulky air. Mrs. Matilda Pitman was sitting in an armchair, knitting. She still wore her bonnet and her triumphant expression. "Set right in, dears, and make a good breakfast," she said. "We are not hungry," said Kate, almost pleadingly.
'When I told mamma, she said most likely he thought me a little girl who didn't signify; but I did not think he could, for I am the tallest of them all, and every one says I look as if I was seventeen, at least. And then she told me grand gentlemen and officers didn't care what nonsense they talked. You know she didn't know him so well then, said Violet, looking up pleadingly.
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