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A sudden change came over Lady Markham at the mention of her husband's name, and after a few minutes' hesitation, she stepped out to stand with joined hands, looking supplicatingly at the general. "My husband?" she said imploringly, "is is he well?" "You ask me a question I cannot answer, madam," said the general, taking off his morion, and speaking in a quiet sympathising voice.
"It means," answered the king, "that to you belong now the titles and honors of your brother." "Nothing but that?" asked the prince, timidly. "I do not want his titles and honors." "You are the heir to the throne; you have now the title of Dauphin of France." The little one timidly grasped the hand of his mother, and lifted his great blue eyes supplicatingly to her.
This man had, in the whole contest, acted with a singular forbearance, he did so now: he paused for a moment and dropped his hand. Hitherto the other man had not stirred from his mute position; he now moved one step towards us, brandishing a poniard like his comrade's. Isora raised her hand supplicatingly towards him, and cried out, "Spare him, spare him! Oh, mercy, mercy!"
Say that Colonel Philibert brings orders from His Excellency the Governor to the Chevalier Intendant." "And be served with a writ of ejectment! Pardon me! Be not angry, sir," pleaded Pothier supplicatingly, "I dare not knock at the door when they are at the devil's mass inside. The valets! I know them all! They would duck me in the brook, or drag me into the hall to make sport for the Philistines.
He saw the door of the prison cell swing open; saw near it the figure of a noble young girl, with large and frightened eyes and lips half tremulous. To this vision he outstretched his hands. He was almost conscious of uttering some word supplicatingly, almost conscious of uttering a name. Perhaps he slept on. We little know the ways of the land of dreams.
"It is very easy, signor, for you to say: 'Take the body on your shoulders and traverse three or four streets. Signor Geronimo is heavier than you suppose, and I doubt if by the exertion of all my strength I could carry it twenty steps." Simon Turchi took his servant's two hands in his, and said, supplicatingly: "Julio, my friend, be generous; it is not a difficult task for one like yourself.
But she was too soon, William came running down the passage to meet her. He laid his hand supplicatingly on her arm. "Don't touch me!" she said, and her eyes filled with dangerous light. "Now, Esther! ...Come, don't lay it on too thick!" "Go away. Don't speak to me!" "Just listen one moment, that's all." "Go away. If you don't, I'll go straight to Mrs. Barfield."
"And I should not wish you to be thrown into prison and myself into the oubliettes." "Let us efface 'Medici," said Pittrino, supplicatingly. "No," replied Cropole, firmly. "I have got an idea, a sublime idea your picture shall appear, and my legend likewise. Does not 'Medici' mean doctor, or physician, in Italian?" "Yes, in the plural."
You will save your country." But his words appeared to convert all her crushed and pathetic misery into anger. "It is not my country!" she replied almost fiercely. "To me it means only " Von Ritz raised his hand supplicatingly. "It is my country," he said sadly, "and your duty. Its fate is in your hands."
Judge, then, what I have suffered in realizing our situation: I, overwhelmed with riches, you, reduced to your officer's pay. Is that a satisfaction to your pride? Very well! But to my own, it is the original stain, which only a restitution, nobly accepted by you, ever can efface!" She paused, looking at him supplicatingly, her hands clasped.
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