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Updated: April 30, 2025
With the parts of a great machine whirling in unison and nicely timed to escape destruction, a small accident to a single cog may spell disaster. Lidgerwood left his chair and went again to consult the time-table. A brief comparison of miles with minutes explained the effect without excusing the cause.
Evan assured her that he was seriously examining her bonnet. 'It 's the bonnet of a draggletail, said Polly, giving up her arms, and biting her under-lip for the lift. With some display of strength, Evan got the lean creature up behind him, and Polly settled there, and squeezed him tightly with her arms, excusing the liberty she took.
It was her father whom she called thus, since the day when she had discovered that there was a German coin called thaler, which represents three francs and sixty-eight centimes in French currency. "You know, I suppose," she went on, "that papa has just been badly stuck?" M. de Tregars was excusing himself in vague terms; but it was one of Mlle.
He was late, but she knew he would be late. Sure in the conviction that he was a strong man, a man of imagination and of deeds, she could easily excuse this failing in him, as she did that other habit of impulsive action in trifles. Nay, more, she found keen pleasure in excusing it.
Esther Dearborn rose with great pomp and dignity, cleared her throat, put on a pair of eye- glasses, and began. Who ran to catch me on the spot, If I the slightest rule forgot, Believing and excusing not? Miss Jane. Who lurked outside my door all day In hopes that I would disobey, And some low whispered word would say? Miss Jane.
There was one, however, who took no part in all this. Excusing himself from the festive board on the plea of ill health, he held aloof, a prey to dark and gloomy suspicions. These he communicated to Harry before the "evening session" began.
The end of the conference was more calm: The Cardinal conducted Grotius to the door of the chamber, excusing himself that his health did not permit him to go farther. A month after this audience Grotius demanded another of his Eminence, which he obtained, after asking it five days successively , at Ruel.
Gwen had been astonishing them by a piece of news that she had been keeping to herself for a long time, and this was that she had at last listened to Clement Arkwright, and was engaged to him. 'They say that if one wedding comes off in a family, others are sure to follow, she said, by way of excusing herself; 'and he has been bothering my life out lately.
Rebecca had wrestled, struggled, perspired in vain. When her turn came to read she was obliged to confess she had written nothing. "You have at least two lines, Rebecca," insisted the teacher, "for I see them on your slate." "I'd rather not read them, please; they are not good," pleaded Rebecca. "Read what you have, good or bad, little or much; I am excusing nobody."
Even Phil drank it, though she was offered tea, excusing her treachery by saying that she found her tastes were changing to suit the climate of Holland a dangerous theory, since who can tell to what wild lengths it may lead?
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