The note ended with a plea: "Please forgive me.
My colleague Zoe Williams's heartfelt plea to forgive Tony Blair, so the left can reunite and just get rid of this dreadful government, is also to do with trust and accountability.
Later, a female student in the teacher's class makes a plea to "forgive [the former child soldiers] and bring peace and reconciliation".
So here's my plea: Mr. Salinger, forgive me my genuinely earnest and well-meaning if intrusive-sounding request, but could you reassure us that — if you have been writing all this time — we'll get to see some of it before … we die?
Few need a prophet to know what comes next in this all-too-familiar plot: the plea to be forgiven, and understood.
After an emotional plea for the residents of Jene-Wonde to forgive the county health team for its failure to keep them informed about their loved ones in Monrovia, Cooper leaned forward.
The department also shunned pleas by Senate Democrats and state prosecutors to forgive Corinthian students' federal student loans on the grounds that they were misled into enrolling in its schools.
It is the Approbation which makes it unnecessary for me to make any Apology but to the Author: As he cannot but feel some Satisfaction in having pleas'd so many Readers already, I flatter myself he will forgive my communicating that Pleasure to many more".
What's harder to forgive is that when the culprit is finally tracked down, his (or her!) plea agreement requires her (or him!) to tell Susie all about the murder.
Mason ended with a plea for forgiveness: "Sorry if I cause you any heart ache and pains if so please forgive me.
