If I had not consented to let that unfortunate man refer to me by name, the
late Lord Montbarry would never have engaged him, and his wife would have been spared the misery and suspense from which she is suffering now.
"It is too
late," said she, her voice sounding hard through the room, her eyes shining unnaturally.
Adjutants and generals galloped about, shouted, grew angry, quarreled, said they had come quite wrong and were
late, gave vent to a little abuse, and at last gave it all up and went forward, simply to get somewhere.
"Very well--and for the next presentation to a living of that value--supposing the
late incumbent to have been old and sickly, and likely to vacate it soon--he might have got I dare say--fourteen hundred pounds.
"Too
late! Too
late!" was the dismal accompaniment of thought to which he marched.
She has cunningly limited her own legacy, not only to what is fairly due her, but to what the
late Mr.
"Well, perhaps it isn't too
late to mend a bit there.
"Why, it is after midnight," said the King, "and that strikes me as being
late enough.
Late in the afternoon she sought refuge with Mademoiselle Reisz, and stayed there alone, waiting for her, feeling a kind of repose invade her with the very atmosphere of the shabby, unpretentious little room.
'Lady,' cried the girl, sinking on her knees, 'dear, sweet, angel lady, you ARE the first that ever blessed me with such words as these, and if I had heard them years ago, they might have turned me from a life of sin and sorrow; but it is too
late, it is too
late!'
The party went aboard the steamer, which was a large freight vessel, carrying a limited number of passengers, and
late one afternoon swung down New York Bay.
One day
late in the autumn my master had a long journey to go on business.