‘But meantime,’ pleaded he, ‘let me commend my cause to your most indulgent—’ ‘No indulgence for you, Mr. Huntingdon, must come between me and the consideration of my niece’s happiness.’
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
“And now, my masters, after mine ill news, I fear you will scarcely take it well of me to bid you to a wedding; yet for that came I hither.”
— from Robin Tremayne A Story of the Marian Persecution by Emily Sarah Holt
|