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I only designed to express what I thought generally admitted, that the house of Rasay allowed the superiority of the house of Dunvegan. Even this I now find to be erroneous, and will therefore omit or retract it in the next edition. 'Though what I had said had been true, if it had been disagreeable to you, I should have wished it unsaid; for it is not my business to adjust precedence.
It was not fair to be thus misinterpreted. But he had done wrong to swear, and more so in quitting them so abruptly. The consciousness of his wrong-doing, however, only made him more confirmed in it. His native obstinacy would not allow him to retract what he had said even to himself. Walking along, he came to Bates's grave, and the cross upon it. Here was another evidence of ill-treatment.
It was a holy for it was a human image; he had resigned her, and he repented. The light of day served, if not to dissipate, at least to sober, the turbulence and fervor of the preceding night. But was it indeed too late to retract his resolve? "Too late!" terrible words! Of what do we not repent, when the Ghost of the Deed returns to us to say, "Thou hast no recall?"
Because he has brought in such a pleasant piece of news, I retract all I said just now. Did not somebody burn his hand for having said or done something he was sorry for? Well, I can't burn mine, because it would hurt me, and the scar would be ugly; but I'll retract all I said as fast as I can.
The implied censure will be received as a soldier always should the reprimand of his chief. "If I were to retract of my own accord, it would imply that I myself thought it wrong, and that I had acted without the reflection which the gravity of the point demanded. But I did not.
Aye, there it was, slowly winding up the steep white road, on which it seemed to move at a snail's pace. She might overtake him she might she might speak one farewell word to him, print his face on her heart with a last look nay, when he saw her he might retract, and not utterly, for ever, leave her.
It was determined at once to meet it boldly to extenuate nothing, to retract nothing to take advantage of no legal subterfuge; but dare the issue promptly, openly and fully. Mr. O'Brien at first refused to be defended by counsel.
"Were there light enough," she continued, "I would lift my veil and show you that they are capable of a kindlier light than even that they now carry, for the offering I made to heaven has been more than answered." "Ah, you come to retract," he said, "to speak the truth at last. It is not too late to say you are the mother the mother of the boy.
Liberality in princes is regarded as a mark of beneficence, but when it occurs, that the homely bread of the honest and industrious is often thereby converted into delicious cates for the idle and the prodigal, we soon retract our heedless praises.
"Ah, Monty, money should never come between friends, and so I retract: with three failures this season, because the public doesn't appreciate art." "It's about moving pictures. I know that you have floated a syndicate for big productions. Do you work night and day?" "An investment? Heaven bless you! Come into my bedroom and we'll arrange things of course, we work at night.
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