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"And yet," Mollie cried in a voice of bitter anguish, "you have let me, James Dane's child, eat of his bread, drink of his cup, dwell under his roof! Oh, my mother!" At that piercing cry of unutterable reproach, the dying woman held up her supplicating hands. "It was because I loved you a thousand times better than myself better than my revenge. Forgive me, Mollie forgive me!"
'I will be merciful, and not just, resumed he, 'I will soften the punishment you deserve, and will only deliver you to your father. At these dreadful words, Julia bursting into tears, sunk at the feet of the Abate, to whom she raised her eyes in supplicating expression, but was unable to speak. He suffered her to remain in this posture.
All I ventured was to raise mine eyes towards the sun, and place my hands together in a supplicating posture, and to speak some words in a humble melancholy tone, suitable to the condition I then was in: for I apprehended every moment that he would dash me against the ground, as we usually do any little hateful animal, which we have a mind to destroy.
Yet it was so! Catinat even, presented his pistol at his former chief, but he did not fire. Cavalier would not yet turn back. He hung upon the skirts of the column, entreating, supplicating, adjuring the men, by all their former love for him, to turn, and follow him. But they sternly marched on, scarcely even deigning to answer him.
She was poring over the book, seemed absorbed in it, yet trembling lest she could not get at it. It made him cross. She was ruddy and beautiful. Yet her soul seemed to be intensely supplicating. The algebra-book she closed, shrinking, knowing he was angered; and at the same instant he grew gentle, seeing her hurt because she did not understand. But things came slowly to her.
If ever I allow myself to play so mean a part, I should wish at least to do it with your knowledge and consent." "And do you ask me to consent to it?" asked the Marquise. "My poor Charlotte!" said the General, in a sad and almost supplicating tone, "I am an old fool an overgrown child but I feel that this miserable letter will poison my life. I shall have no more an hour of peace and confidence.
And as his companion's frenzy continued to increase and he talked of casting himself into the Meuse, he was obliged to restrain him, even to the point of using violence, scolding and supplicating, tears standing in his eyes. Then suddenly he said: "See! look there!"
I never pass a day without offering you as a sacrifice to Him on the Heart of His well- beloved Son, desiring and supplicating that you may be consumed as a perfect holocaust on that Divine Altar.
The owl hooted fearfully, quitted its perch, and flew off by the way it had entered the chamber. The Dark Shape came on. It stood beside Mistress Nutter, and she prostrated herself before it. The gestures of the figure were angry and imperious those of Mistress Nutter supplicating. Their converse was drowned by the rattling of the storm.
I am ardently hoping, fervently supplicating that this epochal Conference, setting the seal on the celebration of the second Bahá’í Jubilee, may contribute in an unprecedented degree through the character of its deliberations, the solidity of its achievements, the scope of its accomplishments, to the ultimate attainment of the shining goals of the World Crusade, destined to culminate in the not far distant Most Great Jubilee associated with the hundredth anniversary of the assumption by Bahá’u’lláh of His prophetic office.
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