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Then he took his hat, and slowly and sadly departed without any words of farewell. In spite of his lame foot he walked some distance beyond his own house, in a fit of absent-mindedness that was born of deep regret. It was impossible to help respecting Mrs. Lunn's character and ability more than ever.
She walked on, not quickening her pace of what use was that? but picturing what was about to happen as if she had the full certainty that the man behind her was her father; and along with her picturing went a regret that she had given her word to Mrs. Meyrick not to use any concealment about him.
The wave of passion that swept her now, made up of bitter regret, of longing and of jealousy, overwhelmed her as never before. She had been pacing the room up and down, up and down, stopping now and then to touch some little familiar object with a touch that was a caress. But at this last thought, she sank into a chair and buried her face in her hands.
Yet strangely enough, I reflected with regret that I was about to leave the vicinity of Maddalene. Instead of feeling rejoiced, I mourned over it with almost childish feeling. I had always attached myself to some object, even from motives comparatively slight.
Will you excuse me if I say good-bye to you now, and walk back towards Strathleckie?" "Must it be now?" she said, scarcely knowing what the words implied. She turned her face towards him with a look that he never forgot a look of inexpressible regret, of yearning sweetness, of something only too like the love that he thought he had failed to win.
Strongly and freely as we have ventured to disagree with Professor Kölliker, we have always done so with regret, and we trust without violating that respect which is due, not only to his scientific eminence and to the careful study which he has devoted to the subject, but to the perfect fairness of his argumentation, and the generous appreciation of the worth of Mr.
Charles X., filled with delight, said to the officers who joined him as the troops filed by: "I regret that the entire National Guard is not assembled for the review." Then the officers replied that their comrades would be only too happy if the King would consent to review the whole Guard.
None can regret more than I do its imperfection; still I cannot but hope that it will contribute something towards the solution of the problem of the highest practical as well as scientific importance, the exact determination of the geological system of the State."
He knew how to write, though he took the greatest liberties with spelling; he knew how to read and understood what he read, provided the reading presented no more serious literary difficulties than occurred in the stories in the almanac. He was the first of his line to allow himself to be tempted by the town and he lived to regret it.
"Say that again, and I'll make an effort to thrash you, Prescott!" challenged Hudson, with a grin. "Well, I am sorry it happened," Dick insisted. "And mighty sorry, too." "You couldn't help it." "I know it, but that hardly lessens my regret. I don't enjoy the thought of having destroyed anyone else's property, even if I couldn't help it and can't be blamed.
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