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"There was not a word which you might not hear; madame," observed Louis, gravely. "Mariette and myself retract nothing we have said." "The deuce! I believe it you think of nothing but yourself. You can talk of nothing but that accursed marriage. As for me I might as well be in my grave " "Allow me to interrupt you, madame," broke in Louis, "and prove that I have not forgotten my promise."
It was not that I fully understood what he was working for, but I was conscious of a great desire to prove to him that I could do something, exhibit some tenacity, approve myself to him. I wanted to make him retract what he had said about me; and, further on, I had a dim sense of an initiation into ideas, familiar enough, but which had only been words to me hitherto power, purpose, seriousness.
Notwithstanding, there were some, in all lands that remained steadfast to the principle enunciated by Martin Luther: "Unless I be convinced by Scripture and reason, I neither can nor dare retract"; and so it came to pass that there were Protestant persecutions as well as Catholic persecutions; and so also it came to pass that men became wearied with this intolerance, and determined to seek beyond the Atlantic Ocean a place where they could worship God according to the dictates of their own consciences, with none to molest them or make them afraid.
D'Artagnan's friends reminded him that he had a visit to pay, but at the same time bade him observe that there was yet time to retract. But d'Artagnan was at the same time impetuous and curious. He had made up his mind that he would go to the Palais-Cardinal, and that he would learn what his Eminence had to say to him. Nothing could turn him from his purpose. They reached the Rue St.
She had to pardon the critic in him for an unpleasant review of her hapless CANTATRICE; and as a means of evasion, she mentioned the poor book and her slaughter of the heroine, that he had complained of. 'I killed her; I could not let her live. You were unjust in accusing the authoress of heartlessness. 'If I did, I retract, said he. 'She steers too evidently from the centre of the vessel.
I'm hungrier 'n a gray wolf in a bear-trap." And off he went as he came. But he did not whistle; he chewed. Bacon felt as if he had made too much of a concession, and had a strong inclination to shout after him, and retract his invitation; but he did not, only worked on, with an occasional bear-like grin. There was something captivating in this fellow's free and easy way.
'The last straw! shan't slander her! I'm not slandering her. I don't believe either she'd do it. Needn't all of you look so glum! I'll take it back. We know, God bless every last woman of them, that they don't do it! They haven't got any more use for a bombproof than we have! I can't retract handsomer than that!
That letter was to tell you that to-morrow we must not meet; it was to prepare you, indeed, for our meeting, perhaps, never more!" "Gracious heaven!" exclaimed he, starting, "what is it you mean?" "That I have made a promise too rash to be kept; that you must pardon me if, late as it is, I retract, since I am convinced it was wrong, and must be wretched in performing it."
"Observe what you say," continued Socrates; "for it follows from your answers that we are not always obliged to live with our friends uprightly, and without any deceit, as we agreed we were." "No; certainly we are not, and if I may be permitted to retract what I said, I change my opinion very freely." "It is better," said Socrates, "to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
Looking straight into those sad, pleading eyes he laughed. "The damned fool," muttered the old Doctor on the fence. "Am I to understand that you refuse to retract your words after my explanation?" Dan's tone was mildly doubtful. The Judge was well pleased at what he had heard. "I have absolutely nothing to take back, sir." He laughed again. "Now if that is all, stand aside!"
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