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But I must see him I must see somebody." Max threw an imploring glance at the nurse, who refused to look at him. Then he went in. "Only a minute I won't stay a minute." The nurse shrugged her shoulders. "It's against the doctor's orders. I wash my hands of the consequences," said she. And, with her head held very high, she left the room. Max stood irresolute.
When Gotzkowsky had finished, he raised his clasped hands to heaven, as if imploring the wrath of God on the head of the sinner. "My God! sir, are you, then, going to fail?" Gotzkowsky seized his hand, and looked into his quivering face with an expression of intense anxiety. "Listen to me, Itzig. I may yet be saved; every thing depends upon my obtaining a delay, that my credit may not be shaken.
Poëri replied, when questioned by Timopht, that it was true that a young girl had presented herself at his gate in the supplicating posture of misfortune, imploring hospitality on her knees; that he had received her kindly; had offered her food and shelter; but that she had left in a mysterious fashion for a reason which he could not fathom. In what direction had she gone? That he did not know.
Some men went searching for ladders up the line of back yards, the post hook and ladder truck being, of course, on the far side of the garrison. There being no extension and sheds to this little box, as to the larger quarters up the line, other men began shouting, and Lieutenant Grayson imploring Mr. Lanier to jump, for already the flames had burst through the windows below.
But why are you so secret about him? Tell me, did you ever hear him speak of a Mr. Tyler?" "Hush, hush!" The old lady put her fingers over her lips and advanced to Sydney as if to thrust him out of the door. "Not now. Not here," she added in an imploring tone. Sydney was compelled to back out of the door into the street, but he held it open partially to say: "I must find out about Maurice Darley.
She tried to decipher the mask he wore: it was proof against her imploring eyes. 'If you can ask me if you can positively wish it yes, she said. 'But think of what you are doing. Oh! Alvan, not back to them! Think! He smiled insufferably. He was bent on winning a parent-blest bride, an unimpeachable wife, a lady handed to him instead of taken, one of the world's polished silver vessels.
And albeit repeatedly remonstrated with, she, upon such occasions, invariably turned imploring glances a sort of frowning entreaty to the ladies, or to any of her sex present. "Did you not see that? Oh! can you resist it?" she seemed to gasp, as she made those fruitless efforts to drag them to her conscious level. "Sink thou, if thou wilt," was the phrase indicated to her.
An universal silence and sorrow reigned among them. Those who were nearest Rienzi discovered an alteration. They took the opportunity of imploring his mercy towards the prisoners in terms the most affecting and moving."
"This man is good and kind and tells Selene he loves her." Antinous pointed to the child with an imploring gesture but Mary was already by the window and was raising her hand to her mouth to make her call heard. "Don't, don't," cried Antinous. "I am going at once."
But Rudolf himself had not spoken. Sapt's appeal and the queen's imploring cry had shaken but not overcome him; he had wavered, but he was not won. Yet there was no talk of impossibility or peril in his mouth, any more than in ours: those were not what gave him pause.
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