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"I did afore I saw thee this morrow," replied Dame Lovell, candidly. "And wherefore not after?" "Meseemeth thou hast repented thyself of thy deed." "Repented!" said Lord Marnell, mournfully. "Mother, will you crede me if I tell you that no sorrow worser than this can ever befall me, and that had I known what would come of my seeking of Abbot Bilson, I had sooner cut off my right hand?"
Claude hesitated for a moment; then, like the good-natured fellow he was, said: 'Yes; there are some very good bits in it. Fagerolles already repented having asked that stupid question, and he ended by altogether floundering; he tried to excuse himself for his plagiarisms and his compromises.
This was the first time Nelly had suggested united prayer to her brother; she did it timidly, and the rebuff caused her to shrink within herself. Roy's quick eye observed the shrinking; he repented instantly, and, drawing Nelly to him, laid her head on his breast.
When the King of Prussia found himself defeated at every point he bitterly repented having undertaken a war which had delivered his States into Napoleon's power in less time than that in which Austria had fallen the preceding year. He wrote to the Emperor, soliciting a suspension of hostilities. Rapp was present when Napoleon received the King of Prussia's letter.
"Uncle," said she, "give thyself no further uneasiness on this point, but sit thee down, and draw a paper absolving thyself from the matter in proper form, and I will sign it." The paper was drawn and signed, and Signor Latrezzi from that hour became a different man; he had thoroughly repented. "You are now content?" "I am, my dear Florinda, and thankful to you for thus relieving my mind."
He saw the agitation he had caused, and he almost repented of what he had already said; yet he had acted with a view to getting M. Fille to warn Jean Jacques. "I repeat what I said," he now replied. "Monsieur Jean Jacques' affairs are too nicely balanced. A little shove one way or another and over goes the whole caboose. If anyone here has influence over him, it would be a kindness to use it.
Our union shall not be delayed an hour. It shall take place in Saint Saviour's to-night." "Not to-night," cried Amabel, trembling at his eagerness "to-morrow." "To-night, to-night!" reiterated the earl, victoriously. And he rushed out of the room. Amabel was no sooner left to herself than she repented what she had done.
In short, the Englishman ate and growled, and ate and growled, like a cat eating in company, pronouncing himself poisoned by every dish, yet eating on in defiance of death and the doctor. The Venetian lady, not accustomed to English travellers, almost repented having persuaded him to the meal; for though very gracious to her, he was so crusty to all the world beside, that she stood in awe of him.
She repented at once. "I am sorry, Ted," she said. "It slipped from me."... He called it camping, but the house they had found in Pembury Road, Notting Hill, was more darkened and less airy than any camp.
De la Foret drew himself up with an iron will. No nobler figure of a man ever essayed to preach the Word, and so Elizabeth thought; and she repented of the bitter humour which had set this trial as his chance of life in England and his freedom from the hand of Catherine.
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