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Lord Colambre and Miss Nugent, at one and the same moment, stopped Lord Clonbrony as he was quitting the room, and then approached Lady Clonbrony with supplicating looks; but she turned her head to the other side, and, as if putting away their entreaties, made a repelling motion with both her hands, and exclaimed, "No, Grace Nugent! no, Colambre no no, Colambre!
Patsy rose to her knees and knelt there, shaking her fist a composite picture of supplicating Justice and accusing Truth. She had forgotten that the man before her was sick dying; that he must have suffered terribly in spirit as well as body; and that her words were so many barbed shafts striking at his soul.
'They may open upon the great stair-case, perhaps, said Emily, passing on till she came to a chamber, hung with pictures, and took the light to examine that of a soldier on horseback in a field of battle. He was darting his spear upon a man, who lay under the feet of the horse, and who held up one hand in a supplicating attitude.
She was silent for a few moments, kneeling before him in a supplicating attitude with her body resting upon her heels. She reached out her arms while speaking with a monotonous and sorrowful voice, like the specters in the apparitions of the theater. "I have hesitated a long time before seeing you," she continued.
Among us I think there is nothing approaching it. Strange as some of these wailing and supplicating letters are, humble and even groveling as some of them are, and quaintly funny and confused as a goodly number of them are, there is still a pathos about them, as a rule, that checks the rising laugh and reproaches it. In the following letter "father" is not to be read literally.
Scarcely less timid, however, than the deer, which followed her every movement, she fled a third time, a third time looked back, and was again induced, by my supplicating manner, to return. Such was your mother, Clara de Haldimar; yes, even such as I have described her was Clara Beverley."
"What have you come here for, Marie?" she cried in a supplicating voice which asked no answer. Mademoiselle de Verneuil was busily twisting the branches of holly which she had gathered. "I don't know whether this holly will be becoming," she said; "a brilliant skin like mine may possibly bear a dark wreath of this kind. What do you think, Francine?"
And as she looked at the old Ridge across the sweet, blooming clover-fields, with the darkened house behind her, again the waters of despair rose breast-high and heart-high, beat against her aching throat and were just about to dash over her head as she stretched out one arm to the hills and with a broken cry bent her white forehead in the curve of the other, but suddenly bent head, tear-blinded eyes, quivering breast and supplicating arms were folded tight in a strong embrace and warm, thirsty lips pressed against the tears on her cheeks as Everett's voice with a choke and a gulp made its way into her consciousness.
If Homer had said, 'The priest came, having his daughter's ransom in his hands, supplicating the Achaeans, and above all the kings; and then if, instead of speaking in the person of Chryses, he had continued in his own person, the words would have been, not imitation, but simple narration. Thus he spoke, and the other Greeks revered the priest and assented.
Selkirk, who, during an entire month, had not spoken to the captain, now demanded, in a voice which he attempted to render calm and almost supplicating, to be landed at Coquimbo, from which they were only a few days sail. 'You will not this time accuse me of wishing to desert to the enemy; they are the English, Scotch, Dutch, our countrymen and allies whom I wish to join! Do you still suspect me?
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