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Then we'll send our own man, who has his mineral rights, in here to take possession, and the mine will be ours once more -as it always has been by rights." "Let us get a little way to the rear before you fire the blasts," pleaded Josh. "Go back a couple of hundred feet, if you want," assented Dolph. "But don't you run away!
The Doctor said that now, if at all, the children might be brought for her to look at them once more. One by one we were brought to the bedside, and her hand was placed on our heads. "Then my father bade her farewell, and she lay motionless as if soon to breathe her last. "He then said to himself, 'There is yet one promise I have not pleaded, "If ye ask anything in my name I will do it."
Could any sorrow be like unto his? Like a knife flashing through the gloom of his own shame would come the echo of her words as she pleaded with him to kiss her. It was a kiss of forgiveness she had wanted, and she had put her heart into her eyes and begged as for her very life. How could he have refused?
While on the continent the conflict of Church and State took the form of a dispute between the French king and the papacy, in England it assumed the shape of a struggle between Edward and the Archbishop of Canterbury. In November, 1296, at Bury, Winchelsea admitted the justice of the French war, but pleaded the pope's decretal as an absolute bar to any grant from the clerical estate.
Even you, who should have known me better, were ready to believe the very worst." "I've paid for it," Barrow pleaded. "You don't know how I've hated myself for being such a cad. But it taught me a lesson if you'll not hold a grudge against me. I've wondered and worried about you, disappearing the way you did. Where have you been, and how have you been getting on? You surely look well."
Sister Constance came, and seeing her patient's paleness, accused the sisters of untimely bedroom colloquies; and as they pleaded guilty, Robin was struck by the air of fixed resolution on Cherry's thin white face. There was no sign of any confidence having been made to Alda.
I pleaded the darkness of the night as an excuse; was rebuked by Kitty for my unlover-like tardiness; and sat down.
The tenderest love had already pleaded his cause, but had been unable to overcome her opinion, as to her duty, her disinterested considerations for Valancourt, and the delicacy, which made her revolt from a clandestine union. It was not to be expected, that a vague terror would be more powerful, than the united influence of love and grief.
Did you hear that he put every dollar he'd made in Canada into the scheme? Of course you didn't; he made Tom promise he would never tell you. Besides but I forgot, I must not mention that." "Please spare me any more, auntie," pleaded Helen, who was overcome by a sudden realization of her own injustice and absolute selfishness. "No mercy this time," was the answer, given almost genially.
I incline to suppose that the most powerful impulsion to the feelings of this class must have been that strong anti-slavery sentiment which had undoubtedly for many years been bone of the bone of Englishmen, more powerful even than that sympathy for an overmatched struggle on behalf of independence which would have pleaded for the South.
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