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"The usages of war are stern enough in themselves; you need not aid them to your own condemnation." "The prisoner can retract that declaration, if he please," remarked another judge. "His confession, if taken, goes fully to prove the charge." "I retract nothing that is true," said Henry proudly.
The almoner's doubt of Wolf's orthodoxy had been entirely dispelled by his confession. Men do not deceive in the presence of death. It would have been a genuine boon had Barbara selected him to open her heart to him in the confessional, for her relation to the wounded man rendered it difficult for him to trust her entirely.
"My real purpose was to see you, and to judge, if I could, whether I might ever hope to make you love me. My avowed one, or what I avowed to myself, was to see whether your sister were still partial to Bingley, and if she were, to make the confession to him which I have since made." "Shall you ever have courage to announce to Lady Catherine what is to befall her?"
That is the prayer, not of fancied fitness to stand investigation, but of lowly acknowledgment. In other words, it is really a form of confession. 'Search me. I know Thou wilt find evil, but still search me! It seems to me that there are two main ideas in this petition, on each of which I touch briefly. One is, that it is a glad recognition of a fact which is very terrible to many hearts.
So Hetty had her way, packed a small bundle, and was ready at the gate for the passing of the carrier's van which would set her down within a mile of home. She had acted on an impulse, unreasoning, but not to be resisted. She felt the crisis of her life approaching and had urgent need, before it came on her, to make confession and cleanse her soul.
Should I fall before his fatal aim this confession, written during the temporary absence of my nurse from the chamber of invalidism, will be found among my belongings. Even though as I pen this, perchance my last declaration, I am strangely torn between two all-consuming wishes. I desire above all things to be gone ere it is too late.
The distinguished detective went to a wall telephone, and stood with the receiver to his ear for probably ten minutes. "Were you listening to a confession?" I asked, when he had returned to his chair. "Perhaps," said Jolnes, with a smile, "it might be called something of the sort. To be frank with you, Whatsup, I've cut out the dope.
'Now, if you'll promise never to leave Madge alone about one thing, I'll be as good as good you can't guess anything as good as I'll be. 'There's no such thing as a one-sided bargain, said Paul, 'and you must let me know what you expect from me in answer to this astonishing confession.
But a hundred years of studious convention and generality, of deliberate avoidance of the poignant, and the vivid, and the detailed, and the coloured in poetry had made Pitt's confession as natural as another hundred years of contrary practice from Coleridge to Rossetti have made ours.
But they had a gay dinner party nevertheless and Harriet did not know whether she was sorry or glad that her confession had been delayed. After Mr. Hamlin had said good-bye to his visitors Harriet followed her father out into the hall.
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