[Footnote 8: Our author might also have alluded to the old apology for every thing inane or contemptible"It is a tale of the man in the moon."

I shall see that you send a written apology to the boy you struck.

He instantly had his carriage called back and left the house in spite of all the explanations and apologies of his host, saying that when "one had the honour of receiving the Marquis de N. one waited dinner for him.

Then Simeon himself, taking the paper from him, read the apology in such tones that none could fail to hear.

"Lieutenant Allen instructs me to say," began Preston, who was acting as his second, "that an apology on the part of Lieutenant Stewart will avert consequences which may, perhaps, be unpleasant.

You dicker with me for the support of your paper and I'll guarantee a hundred subscriptions from Royal and get you an apology from Skeelty and a promise he'll behave an' keep his men to home.

He heard my apology with an embarrassed face.

" A French man or woman, with no other apology than "permettez moi," ["Give me leave.

When the king learnt this, and that the general remained merely for the purpose of having a pilot, he sent him one who was a Gentile, called Gosarate in their language, and whose name was Canaca, sending an apology at the same time for not having sent this person sooner.

Under these circumstances, finding myself, upon mature consideration, wholly inadequate to the task proposed, I beg you will accept of this apology as a truth, and present it to Mr. Hoppner on the first opportunity; and assure him that it has been solely my reluctance to yield up the honour he intended me which has tempted me, for an instant, to be undecided in my reply to his overture.

O thou, rebellious to my warm desires, My black-eyed beauty, if thou'rt vexed with me I'll make apology before the world, I'll bring an offering to thee at once, The symbol of my homage.

The laboured platitudes that had been prepared about shorthorns and bacon pigs are quite forgotten, and the visitor is just about to ask the question if his guide has not missed the farm-house and called at the squire's, when Mr. X comes briskly in, and laughs all apology about intrusion to the winds in his genial manner.

Not one of our immediate party, most happily, had ever been beyond Boston Harbor before, and so we all plunged without fear or apology into the delicious sense of foreignness; we moved as those in dreams.

He no longer looked at Lady Sue now, but straight at Sir Marmaduke, speaking the brief apology between his teeth, without opening his mouth, as if the words hurt him when they passed his lips.

[Footnote 4: Quoted from the sixth book of Origen's Miscellanies by Jerome, in his Apology against Rufinus, Book I., § 18.

" "Oh!" cried Mrs. Marshall, checking herself in a sudden deprecatory gesture of apology towards her sister-in-law.

This being said, Mr. Montgomery will not think any apology due to him; I cannot however help addressing him in the words of the Father of English Poets: 'Though it happe me to rehersin That ye han in your freshe songis saied, Forberith me, and beth not ill apaied, Sith