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Bishop Gore finds it in the two earliest of the three Creeds, 'in which Catholic consent is especially expressed; and in a half apologetic manner he adds that this Catholic basis has been 'generally understood' to imply 'an unrealisable but not therefore unreal appeal to a General Council. No revision, therefore, of the Church's doctrinal formularies can be made except by the authority of a court which can never, by any possibility, be summoned!
The chief really fancied, I believe, that he had suddenly gone mad, as he literally fumed with fury. After a few moments, however, Garry cooled down a bit, restraining himself by a violent effort, and he turned to his whilom patient with an apologetic air.
They were silent again; they sat there and gazed at the dead man; there was something apologetic in the bearing of each and all. "Yes, that comes late!" said Strom, with a sigh. Then he felt in the straw and pulled out a bottle. Some of the men still sat there, trying to put into words something that ought perhaps to be said; but then came the doctor, and they drew in their horns.
In the car Brentwick turned again, his eyes curiously bright in the starlight, his forehead quaintly furrowed, his voice apologetic. "It may take a few minutes," he said undecidedly, plainly endeavoring to cover up his own dark doubts. "My dear," to the girl, "if I have brought trouble upon you in this wise, I shall never earn my own forgiveness."
Finally, the bell filling the room with its clamor, there was nothing for it but to answer. With grim lips and a murderous eye on his opponent, Mayer dropped her arm, and going to the phone, took down the receiver. From the other end, plaintive and apologetic, came Chrystie's voice. Pancha retreated to the door, opened it and came to a halt on the sill.
'And isn't it surprising, said Marcella, 'in how short a time this apologetic attitude has become necessary? Peak flashed a triumphant look at her. 'I often rejoice to think of it! he cried. 'How magnificent it is that so many of the solemn jackasses who brayed against Darwin from ten to twenty years ago should live to be regarded as beneath contempt!
"Voyons! on! my apologetic friend, do all things in Grenoble belong to you?" He turned to the post-boy, who looked on stolidly. "You are from the Auberge de France, are you not?" quoth he. "I am, monsieur," replied the man. "This carriage was ordered last night by a gentleman lodging at the Veau qui Tete?" "Perfectly," replied the stranger, in a tone of finality. "It was ordered by me."
Martineau had perceived the possibility and danger of a defensive silence or of a still more defensive irony; but now that Sir Richmond had once given himself away, he seemed prepared to give himself away to an unlimited extent. He embarked upon an apologetic discussion of the choleric temperament. He began as they stood waiting for the relief car from the Maidenhead garage.
It was when having picked up her violin in a very passion of loneliness, only to put it down when she found that the familiar sounds echoed and reechoed sadly through the silent rooms it was when she was ready for bed that she found the money under her pillow, and a scrawl from Scatchy, a breathless, apologetic scrawl, little Scatchett having adored her from afar, as the plain adore the beautiful, the mediocre the gifted:
He cut all his paper like that," as he pointed to a stack of sermon paper still unused on another and smaller table. Father Brown went up to it and held up a sheet. It was the same irregular shape. "Quite so," he said. "And here I see the corners that were snipped off." And to the indignation of his colleague he began to count them. "That's all right," he said, with an apologetic smile.
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