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Forgive in sentence

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And he introduced him, "Chief Clerk Josef K.""Oh!" said the invalid, now with much more life in him, and reached out his hand towards K."Do forgive me, I didn't notice you there at all."
"The office director - oh, yes, forgive me, I haven't introduced you - this is my friend Albert K., this is his nephew, the chief clerk Josef K., and this is the office director - so, the office director was kind enough to pay me a visit.
K., ..." one of them was saying, but K. had told the servitor to fetch his winter coat and said to the three of them, as the servitor helped him to put it on, "Please forgive me, gentlemen, I'm afraid I have no time to see you at present.
Please do forgive me but I have some urgent business to settle and have to leave straight away.
Or else, like happened yesterday, I might come back home late in the evening - please forgive my appearance and the room being in a mess, it is to do with them - so, I might come home late in the evening and want to go to bed, then I feel something pinching my leg, look under the bed and pull another of them out from under it.
"Oh, do forgive me!" said the man, and he looked at himself in the light of the candle he was holding as if he had not known about his appearance until then.
None of us spoke for a while; but, at length, George turned to the new comer, and said:"I beg your pardon, I hope you will forgive the liberty that we - perfect strangers in the neighbourhood - are taking, but my friend here and myself would be so much obliged if you would tell us how you caught that trout up there."
I'm sure he'll be good enough to forgive the untidiness of your room."
Captain Lawton never could forgive the deception; his antipathies to his enemies were not very moderate, but this was adding an insult to his penetration that rankled deeply.
"But how is it that you are idle, when there is work to do?""My sword arm is not in the best condition, and Roanoke has but a shambling gait this morning; besides, there is another reason I could mention, if it were not that Miss Wharton would never forgive me.""Speak, I beg, without dread of my displeasure," said Frances, returning the good-humored smile of the trooper, with the archness natural to her own sweet face.
But you relent, you do hear me, you will pity and forgive."
"Forgive me, Mason," cried Dunwoodie, taking both his hands.
But I forgive ye, Tom.
"I forgive you everything, Sid.
Maybe--""I forgive everybody, Sid.
And God forgive me, I cracked Tom's head with my thimble, poor boy, poor dead boy.
I just forgive you everything for that!"
I hope the Lord--I _know_ the Lord will forgive him, because it was such good-heartedness in him to tell it.
A moment later she was reading Tom's piece of bark through flowing tears and saying: "I could forgive the boy, now, if he'd committed a million sins!"CHAPTER XXTHERE was something about Aunt Polly's manner, when she kissed Tom, that swept away his low spirits and made him lighthearted and happy again.
When I used to tell her that she was good for nothing, and that her father was a fool to bring her up like that, she would begin to cry, and say that I was a rude boy, and that she would go home that very night, and never forgive me as long as she lived.
"Oh, Jim will forgive me!""You will break his heart and ruin his life."
"No, no; he will forgive me.""He will murder de Lapp!Oh, Edie, how could you bring such disgrace and misery upon us?""Ah, now you are scolding!"
"Any message for me?""She said that you would forgive her.""May God blast my soul on the day I do!
"It's very good for those who wish to forget," said he; "I am going to remember!""May God forgive you for sinfu' waste!" cried my father aloud.
Forgive me, my dear!
Forgive me, my dear; once more I say, forgive me!
As to what she took from me, I could expect no less from her in the condition I was in, and to this hour I know not whether she robbed me or the coachman; if she did it, I forgive her, and I think all gentlemen that do so should be used in the same manner; but I am more concerned for some other things that I am for all that she took from me.'My governess now began to come into the whole matter, and he opened himself freely to her.
I had no spleen at the saucy rogue, nor were his submissions anything to me, since there was nothing to be got by him, so I thought it was as good to throw that in generously as not; so I told him I did not desire the ruin of any man, and therefore at his request I would forgive the wretch; it was below me to seek any revenge.
The ordinary of Newgate came to me, and talked a little in his way, but all his divinity ran upon confessing my crime, as he called it (though he knew not what I was in for), making a full discovery, and the like, without which he told me God would never forgive me; and he said so little to the purpose, that I had no manner of consolation from him; and then to observe the poor creature preaching confession and repentance to me in the morning, and find him drunk with brandy and spirits by noon, this had something in it so shocking, that I began to nauseate the man more than his work, and his work too by degrees, for the sake of the man; so that I desired him to trouble me no more.
I forgive you all that.
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