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Shrapnel the fullest reparation he may think fit to demand of me for an unprovoked assault on him, that I find was quite unjustified, and for which I am here to ask his forgiveness. Speech of man could not have been more nobly uttered. Dr. Shrapnel replied: 'To the half of that, sir 'tis over! What remains is done with the hand. He stretched his hand out. Lord Romfrey closed his own on it.
At this moment her father stirred in his sleep, and she distinctly heard the words drop from his lips "I would make reparation." Before she had even time to take these words in, he had opened his eyes and was gazing at her. "You are better now," she said, stooping down and kissing him. "Yes, my darling; much, much better."
The shadowy form of Alice never troubled me again, I believe reparation can be made beyond the tomb, and that in some far-off world the new-born spirit of Richard atones to Alice and Herbert for the wrong he did them in this. Dead! dead! You call her dead!
On the 10th of July, 1411, the three princes of Orleans sent a long letter to the king, complaining that no reparation whatever had been made for the murder of their father, and begging him that, as what was done at Chartres was contrary to every principle of law, equity, reason, and justice, the case should be reopened again.
"Does she realise the complications that must almost certainly ensue with Wentworth directly her confession is made? "Will her first step towards a truer life, her first action of reparation estrange him from her?" The Bishop was pacing up and down in the library at Lostford, waiting for Magdalen and Fay, when the servant brought in the day's papers.
Zarah was well pleased that her grandmother's hospitality should be to him some reparation for a deep wrong sustained from one of her family. "Yes," said Hadassah, thoughtfully; "that dream must have been sent to prepare me for this. The Lord hath given me a work to perform, and He will not let His servant suffer for striving to do His bidding.
That is how I feel, Denasia." "You are ashamed to take me to St. Penfer as your wife. And yet you owe me this reparation." "There is no use discussing such a foolish statement. I do not think I owe you anything, Denasia. I have given you my name; at this very moment I am considering your welfare.
When a man has been unjust and prejudiced, it becomes his peremptory duty, however pride may rebel, to do all in his power to atone for it by an honourable reparation, both in word and deed, towards him he may have injured.
'What! steal the apple, Sir Giles? 'Make the instant reparation you did. 'There was no reparation in asking you to box my ears. 'It was all you could do, though. 'To ease my own conscience, it was. There is always a satisfaction, I suppose, in suffering for your sins. But I have thought a thousand times of your kindness in shaking hands with me instead.
A life of expiation was not atonement enough. There seemed only one solution a life for a life. And that was no reparation, only justice. He put no value on his own life he wished vaguely that the worth of it were greater he had merely wasted it and now he had forfeited it. Remained only to end it now. There was no reason for delay. He had no preparations to make. His affairs were all in order.
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