"And please give me a chance! You'll spoil it all if you stay!"
"I'm going to stay right here," was his grim response. She realized there was no changing him. She glimpsed a closet door behind him, and caught at the chance of saving at least a fragment of her drama. "Stay, then but, Larry, please give me a chance to do what I want to do! Please!" By this time she had dragged him across the room and had started to unlock the closet. "Just wait in here--and keep quiet! Please!"
He took the key from her fumbling hands, unlocked the door, and slipped the key into his pocket.英文原著 · 《Children of the Whirlwind》
Both are pained. And are they equally pained? I should imagine that the cowards are more pained. And are they better pleased at the enemy's departure? I dare say. Then are the foolish and the wise and the cowards and the brave all pleased and pained, as you were saying, in nearly equal degree; but are the cowards more pleased and pained than the brave? But surely the wise and brave are the good, and the foolish and the cowardly are the bad? Then the good and the bad are pleased and pained in a nearly equal degree?英文原著 · 《Gorgias》
And you shall go to bed when you please, get up when you please, talk when you please, read when you please. Howells may even go to New York Saturday if she feels that she must, but if some gentle, unannoying coaxing can beguile her into putting that off a few days, we shall be more than glad, for I do wish she and Mrs. Clemens could have a good square chance to get acquainted with each other. But first and last and all the time, we want you to feel untrammeled and wholly free from restraint, here.英文原著 · 《Letters Vol. 2》
Please, please don't! She'll be going soon. She needn't ever know--about me. I want her always to think well of me. Dick, I beg of you. Oh, the fear of her knowing has been the worst of all! Please don't go!"
"Nell, I'm sorry. I hate to hurt you.英文原著 · 《Desert Gold》
Jennings. "Hannah always sees to that. She's knows just what I want. She is a capital cook, too, Hannah is."
Hannah looked pleased at this compliment. "You are easily pleased, master," she said. "I should be hard to suit if I were not pleased with your cooking. You don't know so well Carl's taste, but if there is anything he likes particularly he can tell you."
"You are very kind, sir," said Carl. "There are not many men who would treat a poor boy so considerately," he thought.英文原著 · 《Driven From Home》
She was crying softly. "No--it would make me--very--sorry, but it would be--worse--to hurt-- God's. Please don't make me, please, please don't make me, Dr. Ballard!"
She was increasingly excited, and he feared the effect. "Very well then, Jewel," he returned. "I don't want to do you more harm than good."
"Oh, thank you!" she exclaimed fervently, through her tears. "But Mrs. Forbes must think you have the medicine.英文原著 · 《Jewel》