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"You are, for the present," with an arch glance; "but I reserve the right to retract at a moment's notice." "And in the meantime you will prove it by coming out to lunch on Sunday? We might go to the Zoo afterwards, and make friends with some of the animals."
He meant in the plainest, most unmistakable manner, and with the fullest knowledge of what he was doing, to take all the responsibility of the alleged insult on his own shoulders, and he had nothing to retract. Ah! he had far better reasons for fighting than the mere love of swagger. There was nothing for it, therefore, but to fight.
"And did you deem it a fit thing to publish?" "Most assuredly, sir, or I would never have consented to its appearance. Of its authorship I can say nothing whatever, but for its publication I assume full, sole and personal responsibility." "And do you then retract it or not?" "Mr.
Aikenhead might undoubtedly have been, by the law of Scotland, punished with imprisonment till he should retract his errors and do penance before the congregation of his parish; and every man of sense and humanity would have thought this a sufficient punishment for the prate of a forward boy. But Stewart, as cruel as he was base, called for blood.
And Wilkie's not the man to retract either; he'll tell me the mistake's my own and I'll have to grin and bear the ignominy." "And that poor girl," said Kate "her story lost to her! No wonder I couldn't find her MS. I meant to have made you hunt for it to-day, but this picnic put it out of my head." And now Hugh gave a sudden roar of laughter.
Leonard, "Amy and I have been indulging in some surmises over a remark you made the other day about the bluebirds. You said the female was a cold, coy beauty, and that her mate would soon be overburdened with family cares. Indeed, I think you rather reflected on our sex as represented by Mrs. Bluebird." "I fear I cannot retract.
But, he continued: "In presenting the abandonment of armed resistance to the National Authority, on the part of the Insurgents, as the only indispensable condition to ending the War, on the part of the Government, I retract nothing heretofore said as to Slavery.
Grant was delighting himself simply in her presence, and guessed that for her part she could not retract the confession her love had wrung from her so long ago. "There are some things which don't change, Phyllis," he said, when the orchestra had ceased. She looked back at him with eyes moist and dreamy. "I know," she murmured.
"I say it, because I know that it was so, and I will maintain that fact against any one at any time. If you choose to contradict the evidence of my senses, it is you who are a liar!" "Ha! you shall give me satisfaction for this insult. Depend upon it, I am not one to be trifled with, as you shall find. You shall retract your words." "Never!
It meant less to retract. Joe thought another moment. "Take me," he said suddenly, "to the place where you get the business." There he might find a connecting link in his chain, he felt growingly certain. "Oveh to Mist' Bushrod's?" The inflection was perfectly naïve. "No. Of course not out where you get it. Over to Fillmore or wherever it is."
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