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I was regretful at leaving the elastic Tuscan speech, canorous in its vowels set in emphatic l's and m's and the vigorous soft spring of the double consonants. But as the train arrived its noises were drowned by a voice declaiming in the tongue I was not to hear again for months good Italian.
I felt dreary, sad, infinitely regretful, and felt inclined in her absence to walk through her rooms, and longed that the problem that my wife and I had not been able to solve because our characters were incompatible, should solve itself in the natural way as soon as possible that is, that this beautiful woman of twenty-seven might make haste and grow old, and that my head might be grey and bald.
And the sunshine of the warm April afternoon, heightened it may be by her determined unmercenary pose, betrayed too the faintest hint of shabbiness in her dress. He had never noticed these shadows upon her or her setting before and their effect was to fill him with a strange regretful tenderness.... Perhaps men only begin to love when they cease to be dazzled and admire.
Of this they spoke; the younger one in bitter complaint, the elder one with regretful tenderness. Now the latter said the yellow one to the blue that he should not so impatiently demand the love of a woman to capture him and hold him bound.
She could not herself sing without accompaniment, and when she left, it was with a regretful feeling that she had not distinguished herself.
The rude ferry-boat is awaiting our coming, and in a few minutes the khan and the colonel bid me quite an affectionate farewell on the river-bank, gazing eagerly into my face as though regretful at the necessity of parting so soon. My escort favor me with the, same lingering gaze.
That had been her simple and innocent belief, but it had broken down suddenly as soon as she discovered that she was only a human, resentful, regretful woman after all, as far below the mystic detachment from the outward world as she had been in those first days of her grief, at Madame Bernard's, when she had sat listless all the day long, a broken-hearted girl.
While conversing with Heinz Schorlin she seemed joyously excited, unrestrainedly cordial, but her manner expressed disappointment and royal hauteur as another group of ladies and gentlemen came forward to be presented, compelling her to turn her back upon the young Swiss with a regretful shrug of her shoulders.
I go in on my own hand, no trump. I am a careful declarer. I play here every day when I am in London, and they know me well to be a careful declarer. My partner I do not know his name; I hope I shall never know his name; I hope I shall never see him again he takes me out. 'Into what? you ask. Into diamonds! I am regretful, but I recognise, as I believe, a necessity.
But he could not drum up even a dutiful "Oh, she doesn't really need you, does she?" While he tried to look regretful, while he felt that his wife was watching him, he was filled with exultant visions of Tanis. "Do you think I'd better go?" she said sharply. "You've got to decide, honey; I can't." She turned away, sighing, and his forehead was damp.
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