Word: pardoning
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...have, I dissolved one in a tumblerful of water, and told her to take a teaspoonful every three hours. While preparing the decoction I innocently asked how Miss Rosalie was this afternoon. "Rosalie who?" replied the lady, "there is no one of that name here." I begged her pardon, explaining that I was very absentminded, and was thinking of another patient. As soon as possible I left the house, muttering something about duplex soleratum tornatum and my luck. After walking a few blocks, it began to dawn upon me that it was not the young lady's but a sample...
...rather startled tone: "I - I beg your pardon, Miss M. - I was not - aw - aware that I lay open to any such suspicion...
Literary young man at party. - "Miss Jones, have you seen Crabbe's Tales?" Young lady (scornfully) - "I was not aware that crabs had tails." Literary young man (covered with confusion) - "I beg your pardon. I should have said, read Crabbe's Tales." Young lady (angrily scornful) - "And I was not aware that red crabs had tails either." Exit young man. - Unidentified Exchange...
...poor boy, you have been sorely tempted. I myself felt Satan's influence last evening, and it was only after wrestling with the arch-fiend in prayer during the midnight watches last night that I decided to leave by the early train this morning for Smithfield Centre. I pardon your sins, my poor boy, and hope that when your vacation begins you will come to us at Smithfield Centre, that the good influence of Priscilla and myself may counteract the workings of the Devil...
...upon looking up I found myself in the immediate presence of a very young and pretty girl, who was sitting reading, or pretending to read, at the foot of a large maple-tree whose branches overhung the water. Being a Boston man, my first impulse was to beg pardon for my unintentional intrusion, and beat a hasty retreat; but, upon perceiving my intention, the maiden, somewhat to my surprise, remarked, with more amiability than grammatical accuracy, "Wal, you ain't a-going, are you? Do I look dangerous?" Here was a nice opening for a pretty speech...