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"It is absurd," he answered her suddenly, "but to save my life I can't decide whether you are tall or short." The front door came open with a bang; the noise brought him sharply to himself; and the next moment a pleasant impatient masculine voice called out: "I say, Miss Carstairs! Er everything all right?" "Oh! yes, Mr. Richards!" she called penitently. "I'm coming this minute.
"Very well," she decided, "I suppose, after all, one must remember that you did save us from a great deal of inconvenience the other night. I will talk to you for a few minutes." He found her an easy-chair and he sat by her side. "This is bully," he declared. "Is what?" she asked, once more raising her eyebrows. "American slang," he explained penitently. "I am sorry.
She is but drained milk and treacle. Do you want to see her, Sir Max? If so, I'll return to the house and send her to you." "Fräulein, I need not answer your question," returned Max, convincingly. "But I love Twonette. I know you do not come to see her, and I should not have spoken as I did," said Yolanda, penitently.
I'm going to-morrow." "Oh, I want to see it," she exclaimed, not regarding his last remark. "That's all you care," he said, disappointedly. "I thought you would be sorry that I'm going." "You know I am," she returned penitently, picking at the yellow cord. "Perhaps when I am two hundred years old you'll be as anxious to look at me as you are to look at that!" "Oh, Hollis, I do thank you so."
And I think we must all bow our heads penitently. Contrast the trust that we put in one another, and the trust that we direct to Him. In the one case it is absolute.
To feel greatly what is great, and to heed little what is little, is the true wisdom of life." "You are right, as you always are," said Theodore Korner, reverentially bowing to the beautiful lady, "and let me penitently confess, then, that I have this time heeded greatly what is little and have considered what grieved me a great misfortune.
The sun had long since disappeared behind the big purple mountains and even the warm afterglow in the eastern sky had faded into a pearly opalescent gray when the two reached the edge of the bluff nearest the house. "Oh! The milking!" cried Moira aghast, as she came in sight of the house. "Great Caesar! I was going to help," exclaimed the doctor. "Too bad," said the girl penitently.
The men, who perceived what danger they had been in, listened very penitently to Jack's remonstrances; and our hero, to impress them more strongly on their minds, took out the articles of war, read that on drunkenness from beginning to end; but the men had heard it read so often at the gangway, that it did not make a due impression.
This dread seized the guilty mother with irresistible power, and she wondered that the cheeks of the little sleepers were not already glowing with fever. She threw herself penitently on her knees before the priedieu, and the first atonement to be made for the broken vow was apparent. She must allow Wolf to restore peace to Dona Magdalena's troubled mind.
When asked if she had any hope of being saved from sin, she replied, "I am very far from God, yet my only hope is in the wounded side of Jesus Christ. If penitently I stand beneath the blood dropping from his cross, I hope that my sins, though red like scarlet, may become as white as snow." Her views of the way of salvation were not only clear, but beautifully expressed.
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