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You have been magnanimous to-day. You have let me win." The king's face brightened a little. Gardiner saw it. He must prevent Catharine from following up her advantage further. "Magnanimity is an exalted, but a very dangerous virtue," said he, gravely; "and kings above all things dare not exercise it; for magnanimity pardons crimes committed, and kings are not here to pardon, but to punish."
Bold and seditious speeches were made from the bar, in contempt of the Proprietors and their government. Since no pardons could be obtained but such as they had authorised the governor to grant, the assembly took the matter under deliberation, and fell into hot debates among themselves about a bill of indemnity.
"Sir," said he, "I ask a thousand pardons for coming to disturb you in the height of your pleasure; but what I have to say is of such importance, that I thought myself bound in duty to acquaint you with it. I am come, sir, to make up my last accounts, and to tell you, that what I all along foresaw, and have often warned you of, is at last come to pass.
With an unspoken anxiety they clung to the last moment of their meal; and when coffee had been partaken of, Maxine demanded yet another cup and, resting her elbows on the table, took her face between her hands. "Ned! Will you not offer me a cigarette?" He was all confusion at seeming remiss. "My dear one! A thousand pardons! I did not think " " That I smoked? Are you disappointed?" He smiled.
"They used to bounce in unannounced and eat up all our peanut butter." "Florence, you shouldn't talk like that," her sister admonished her. "You forget Polly and Lois are Seniors," she said with dignity. "A thousand pardons!" Florence laughed. "So they are." "I see you have your defenders just as we had," Louise remarked.
I had succeeded in obtaining favorable answers to applications more difficult than this, but I refused to agree to support her petition solely on account of the offer which had been made to me; I would have been glad to oblige this lady, but only for the pleasure of being obliging, and it was for this reason alone I allowed myself to solicit of the Emperor the pardons which he nearly always granted.
And by an arrangement not uncommon at that date, the crime to be forgiven was yet to be committed under the celestial contract. He of the slouched hat was complaining of the price pardons had reached. "If they go up any higher we poor fellows shall be shut out of heaven altogether." The pardoner denied the charge flatly. "Indulgences were never cheaper to good husbandmen."
Mille pardons, the face, milord, a little more to the right. Thank you thank you very much. And if you will do me the favor to look at me ... for the expression of the eye just so thank you! A most important point, milord, is the expression of the eye. When I say the expression, I mean the fire, the sparkle, the liquidity ... enfin the expression!"
Besides, I wanted a full explanation myself. I decided that I would have five minutes' talk with her; then I would run back and find Mary. "'I must beg a thousand pardons, I began, 'but I took you for somebody else." "'Oh, of course, said she, with a shrug, 'it's always that. "'You appear incredulous, said I, rather offended. "'Well, and if I am? said she. "My feelings were hurt.
Our imprisonment has been a matter of experience. We will all be better able to talk Industrial Unionism than when we entered the jail. "The meals! Did we say 'meals? A thousand pardons! Next time we meet a meal we will apologize to it.
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