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"Do you still hate me, Betty Miss Malroy is there anything I can say or do that will make you forgive me?" He looked at her penitently. But Betty hardened her heart against him and prepared to keep him in place. Remembering that he was still holding her hand, she recovered it. "Will you sit down?" she indicated a chair. He seated himself and Betty put a safe distance between them.
So well did he succeed that at last something impelled her to say rather penitently: "I want to tell you that what happened yesterday afternoon was not my fault, and that I'm very sorry it happened, Lionel." Donnington, who was just in front, heard Varick answer, lightly: "You can hardly expect me to believe that, Bubbles! But I would give a good deal to know how you do it?"
"But," Mollie struggled on, penitently, "I shall never be so foolish again. And I am going to try to be good like Aimée. I am learning to mend things; and I am beginning to make things for Tod. This," holding up her work as proof, "is a dress for him. It is n't very well done," with innocent dubiousness; "but Aimée says I am improving.
He now approached his mother, and reverently kneeling down, implored in words scarcely intelligible, her blessing and forgiveness; he extended both his hands "Mother," he added, "I ask humbly and penitently, I ask your blessing; it will be sweet to me from your beloved lips, dear mother; pardon me if I ever as I feel I often did caused you a pang of sorrow by my disobedience and folly.
"With all my heart, poor girl, I do sincerely forgive you," said Charles, earnestly. All was not black in that human heart, the half effaced image of its Maker was there still; and Maud looked tenderly and penitently upon Helen and Charles.
And look upon these rocks and wild woods and swart savages and thine own rude labors nay then, but I must laugh or burst!" And giving way to her humor the girl trolled out peal after peal of delicious laughter, while her cousin folding his arms sat regarding her with an iron visage, which whenever she caught sight of it set her off again. At last, however, she wiped her eyes and penitently cried,
Varick would allow some of his holly to be cut for decorating the church why shouldn't we go down to-morrow and help? Do, Bubbles to please me!" "I will," she said penitently. "I will, dearest." Donnington sighed a short, quick sigh. He could remember the exquisite thrill it had given him when she had first uttered the word in a crowd of careless people.
Mark wondered what Canon Havelock would have done or said if a woman taken in adultery had been brought into the lecture-room by the beadle. Yet such a supposition was really beside the point, he thought penitently.
To which Richard said: "Have whom you will, sir." The preparation for festivity commenced accordingly. On the birthday eve he dined with the rest. Lady Blandish was there, and sat penitently at his right. Hippias prognosticated certain indigestion for himself on the morrow. The Eighteenth Century wondered whether she should live to see another birthday.
A mutton chop wiv a kidney, as he ordered most express Lord, Mr. Geoffrey!" "Why, to be sure," said Ravenslee, rising. "I forgot all about that chop, Mrs. Trapes." "Didn't you order it most express cut thick an' wiv a kidney?" "I did," said Ravenslee penitently. "Well there it is, cooked to a turn, an' nobody t' eat it! An' kidneys is rose again kidneys is always risin'. Lord, Mr. Geoffrey!"
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