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Newman's until November 26, when he apologises for having kept him in suspense, adding: 'So far from your not having written to the purpose, you laid down one proposition in which I quite acquiesce; that the subject of the supremacy of Rome should be moved argumentatively, if at all.
A gentleman next enters, and immediately the juniors sink out of sight, and scribble away with eager application; the senior puts down his pen and comes out from his desk. It is a squire and magistrate. The senior respectfully apologises for his employer being so occupied. The gentleman seems a little impatient. The clerk rubs his hands together deprecatingly, and makes a desperate venture.
Claude, interested at once, was already questioning him when the servant brought in a telegram. 'All right, said Sandoz, 'it's from Dubuche, who apologises; he promises to come and surprise us at about eleven o'clock. At this moment Henriette threw the door wide open, and personally announced that dinner was ready.
He then turned to the footman behind his chair and asked him if his sword was upstairs. The footman said no, and then the fatuous young man turned to an abbe who sat near me, and enquired who had taken away his mistress: "It was her husband," said the abbe. "Her husband! Oh, that's another thing; husbands don't fight a man of honour always apologises to them."
For in a letter, preserved in Trinity College, and written in the winter of 1631-32, he does not put forward any conscientious objections to the clerical profession, but only apologises to the friend to whom the letter is addressed, for delay in making choice of some profession. The delay itself sprung from an unconscious distaste.
The actor, Ambivius Turpio, a tried servant of the public, maintains that his own perseverance had a great deal to do with the final victory of Caecilius; and he apologises for bringing forward a play which had once been rejected, by his former success in similar circumstances. Horace implies that he maintained during the Augustan age the reputation of a dignified writer.
Then you will find Fauna and Flora, twin goddesses of ineptitude, flitting across the page, unreadable as a geographical treatise. His first masterpiece was translated into French, anno VI., and the translator apologises that war with England alone prevents the compilation of a suitable biography. Was ever thief treated with so grave a consideration?
"'Twas, madam the colonel himself." "The colonel himself!" "Yes, madam, the colonel himself, who called this morning to see you, and renew the intimacy, I presume; but, by mistake, was shown up to me, and then made an apology for his conduct." "It's excessively strange! first the colonel is rude, without my knowledge, and then apologises to you!
It is the very little more that we allow ourselves beyond what the actual poor can get at, that makes what I call a treat when two people living together, as we have done, now and then indulge themselves in a cheap luxury, which both like; while each apologises, and is willing to take both halves of the blame to his single share.
In the capacity of 'commission agent' denomination which includes and apologises for such a vast variety of casual pursuits he had of late been helping to make known to the public a new filter, which promised to be a commercial success.
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