Excuse me, my dear fellow; your opponent spoke so loudly that we were not obliged to exert ourselves to hear his estimate of you.
Larsagny sprang to his rescue, but Fagiano muttered an excuse and hastily left the parlor.
Girdel, with flaming eyes; "excuse me, mademoiselle, but you have been incorrectly informed.
Madame Ursula nodded and disappeared, while Irene turned to Louison and said in explanation: "Excuse me a moment; I will not leave you long alone.
If you will excuse me, Philippe," she said to her brother, "I am going to my room.
The princess, indeed, was not unconscious of the fact; but her brother carried out his intention with such unfailing tact and consideration that she had noexcuse for resenting it.
That does not excuse his presumption--certainly not!
The importance of that object must be my excuse for seeking to intrude myself upon Madame la Princesse.
What military intervention too frequently ended in, Don Agostino was fully aware, and he felt every effort should be made to prevent the threatened demonstration assuming any attitude that might furnish an excuse for obtaining it.
Don Agostino was determined that if more blunders were committed, he would at all events do all that lay in his power to prevent the people themselves from furnishing any excuse for these blunders.
Zeal for the Lord is no excuse for rude abruptness.
The excuse and punishment of the indolent servant.
That was a strangely insolent excusefor indolence.
You see, your mamma's letter miscarried, and I have but just received it, so you must excuse my not sending the carriage to meet you.
I do not believe that we can invent any good excuse for leaving Eden," she said, thoughtfully.
I can excuseyou because I know that your brain must be turned by your sorrow.
Invent some clever excuse for leaving, and come at once to my address in Brooklyn.
Mother, surely you do not blame me and excuse her," he said, wonderingly.
I should like to know if he is worthy of her," was his excuse to his own heart.
All this had the sentry urged in excuse of his failure to hear the approach of the officer of the day.
It was so cruel, so abominable a thing that, perhaps, even Inez Farrell could not, without someexcuse or reason, be guilty of it.
Five years earlier, when Priscilla was well-to-do, he might have found excuse to avoid or to leave her.
There was nothing to excuse or explain his wandering thither now, said Blenke.
Why, the sufferings of the Patrie are merely an excuse for him to do a clever piece of writing!
But if they show any lack of military manners, that is no excuse for our behaving likewise.
He came to ask whether you would excuse his yearly payment for next year, that is, until he has been compensated.
Excuse me," said Leander, coming up to their table.
It was, evidently, for I heard him say: "Excuse me.
She asked him the same question several times, and the marquis strove to excuse himself, and cast the blame on others.
The surrounding country ravaged; the insulted faubourgs; the discovery of divers conspiracies for taking the city by storm, and putting its inhabitants to the sword, left the cantons no excuse for delaying to grant their promised assistance.
In the midst of his prosperity he contracted an unfortunate attachment to a low-born maiden, whose grace and beauty did not, in German eyes, excuse her origin.
For do not we too accuse as well as excuse ourselves?
Leland, who had perhaps some excuse for being consumed with vindictive fury, swung round on him.
One excuse will no doubt serve as well as another.
You will excuse my mentioning that the interest on the money involved is only to be paid--to you.
As a rule, there is no justification for the assumption that people are inclined to excuse whatever they find themselves guilty of.
In murder cases even, when the murderer has confessed, we frequently find that he tries to excuse himself.
Again, the slightest excuse may turn him from what he has in mind.
It might be theoretically supposed that a noble, kindly, feminine feeling would tend to reflect everything as better and gentler, and would tend to excuse and conceal.
It is for this reason that she tends to excuse her neighbor's derelictions.
There is as yet no solution for the crimino-political interpretation of the problems of imitation, and for its power to excuse conduct as being conduct's major basis.
The vessels came into range after dark; the British seem to have fired first; and the Americans had the further excuse that they were still smarting under the Chesapeake affair.
But, again like Dearborn, he had the excuse of being obliged to organize his army in the middle of the war.
I said the Philistine insisted--excuse me, no offence.
But Rex hardly ever failed to find some excuse for staying at home when Greif went to Sigmundskron, and when the ladies came to Greifenstein he generally made his appearance as late as possible.
In an hour she could excuse herself and go to her room, never to see his face again.
It was very hard that he should have escaped in this way, and nothing but his suffering could excuse his conduct; but to have him return now would be almost worse.
Pray excuse me," she begged; "I will sing for you presently.
There was much to excuse her; the clever, artful man into whose hands she had fallen was her first admirer--the first who seemed to remember she was no longer a child, and to treat her with deferential attention.
I shall send a note of excuse to Lady Charteris, and take care of you all day.
And in vain may nature plead her wrongs and the tempest of the passions to excuse the indiscretion of her fitful moments.
This is conclusive, if the law will never justify a homicide except it be committed upon unavoidable necessity, and will never excuse one, except it be done by misadventure or se defendendo.
There is no principle of criminal law which will justify or excuse the death that has been caused through the provocation of the passions alone.
But we must not, in foolish sentimentality, excuse the girl from her duty to keep herself pure.
Everything possible should be done against the capitalist who strives, not to reward special efficiency, but to use it as an excuse for reducing the reward of moderate efficiency.
To furnish himself an excuse for breaking it he devised the plan of summoning a Congress especially called to reject the canal treaty.
Heike's sentence was commuted so as to excusehim from going to the penitentiary; just as the penitentiary sentence of Morse, the big New York banker, who was convicted of gross fraud and misapplication of funds, was commuted.
I was shooting at my wife," which he apparently regarded as a sufficient excuse as between men of the world.
There were other misadventures that I met with where the excuse was greater.
The creditors were entirely satisfied with the arrangement, and no excuse for interference by European powers remained.
And now, if you will excuse me, I will leave you here for a few moments, while I go to change my clothes.
What excuse could I invent wherewith to ease my conscience, if I should practise such deceit upon him in an issue that involved his dearest and most vital interests?
Do with me and for me as you like; but excuse me from much discourse--my breath is short--I feel a spasm when I speak.
Excuse me," he continued: "necessity compels me to make you useful.
I shall sully the purity of your floor," said he, "but you must excuseme for once.
I had green eyes, reader; but you must excuse the mistake: for him they were new-dyed, I suppose.
Was it best to leave me without a word, except a message of excuse for others?
If--if your Excellency will excuse me, I will go to my room.
In excuse of such very untheological doctrines it must be allowed that her ideas concerning wickedness in general were very limited indeed, if not altogether childish in their extreme simplicity.
He only looked at it a moment, and then toexcuse his hesitation in the eyes of the porter, he took out a cigarette, and lit it before going out.
The only excuse for the folly of marrying is the still greater folly of loving a woman enough to marry her.
I could find an excellent excuse and nobody would guess that there was anything wrong.
He fired and wounded her twice, and then tried to get off on the lame excuse that he did not know the pistol was loaded.
The prospective shower was her excuse for going, but laziness the undoubted cause.
He could persuade her to that on some excuseor other.
My excuse was that the chorus was a free feature furnished by my friend Gilmore, and that, as it cost the public nothing, the latter should be satisfied.
Jefferson Davis, who hated Johnston, made the steady retreat of that general before Sherman an excusefor removing him and putting General Hood in his place.
