"I've come to apologise, Mrs. Cameron, for Deirdre's rudeness last night," the Schoolmaster said gravely.
"The Pioneers"
Katharine Susannah Prichard
But if we allow ourselves to contemplate a philosophical history, which shall deal with the causes of events and aim at exhibiting the evolution of human society-and perhaps I ought to apologise for even suggesting that such an ideal could ever be realised-we should also see that the history of literature would be a subordinate element of the whole structure.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen
He must apologise for letting his heavy periods drop on the top of the last speaker's brilliant flippancies, but truth, he regretted to say, was truth.
"Helena Brett's Career"
Desmond Coke
