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He pleaded hard, begged and besought them to let him go, assuring them he was going on very urgent business, and that the stopping him would be greatly to his prejudice. But they were deaf to all entreaties, and hurried him in, the poor man chafing without remedy.

He treated me as if I were a fool, and then said: "Very well, take her with you." But she obstinately refused to leave Genoa, without giving any reason. I besought, I reasoned, I promised, but all was of no avail, and so I stayed on. Paul declared that he would go by himself, and went so far as to pack up his portmanteau; but he remained all the same. Thus a fortnight passed.

Guy, altogether overcome, knelt down beside his mother, and besought her to let him take her home. "Presently presently, my son. You are very good to me; but your father. Children, come in and look at your father." They all gathered round her weeping; but she spoke without single tear. "I was a girl, younger than any of you, when first I met your father.

Hitherto she had concealed from her royal daughter the employment she had given to Adam; for Elizabeth, who had herself suffered from the popular belief in Jacquetta's sorceries, had of late earnestly besought her to lay aside all practices that could be called into question.

And he besought him that he would not order them to go into the abyss. Now a herd of many swine was there feeding on the mountain; and they besought him that he would permit them to enter into them. And he permitted them. Then the devils going out of the man, entered into the swine; and the herd rushed down a precipice into the lake, and was suffocated.

Fineo, hearing this, knew him for certain to be the son whom he had lost, wherefore he came down, weeping, with his companions, and ran to embrace him among all the sergeants; then, casting over his shoulders a mantle of the richest silk, which he had on his own back, he besought the officer who was escorting him to execution to be pleased to wait there till such time as commandment should come to him to carry the prisoner back; to which he answered that he would well.

For they said, If those over whom we are set in authority shout not at the tenth hour, and we send an evil report, we shall surely perish. And they besought their men to shout, aloud at the tenth hour, lest a worse thing should befall.

Round-eyed, open-mouthed wonder seized on the disconcerted musicians, the company rose in confusion, and Josephine, following her spouse, besought him to say what had happened. "What has happened why Lucien has married his mistress." The secret cause for this climax of fashionable comedy is to be sought in reasons of state.

And yet such was the motion of these great names, the Scipios, the Silani, and the Cassii; who urged it, each almost in the same words, but all with mighty zeal and earnestness: when all on a sudden, Togonius Gallus, while he would be thrusting his own meanness amongst names so greatly illustrious, became the object of derision: for he besought the Prince "to choose a body of Senators of whom twenty, drawn by lot and under arms, should wait upon him and defend his person, as often as he entered the Senate."

To the bedside of the great Danish astronomer the youthful philosopher was summoned, and with his last breath Tycho besought of him to spare no labour in the performance of those calculations, by which alone the secrets of the movements of the heavens could be revealed. The solemn trust thus imposed was duly accepted, and the man who accepted it bore the immortal name of Kepler.

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