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Let him, like me, resign revenge, and, not exacting a confession and a cry of peccavi, which no king, much less King Edward the Plantagenet, can whimper forth, let him accept such overtures as his liege can make. Muse on this, and for the peace and weal of the realm so limit all thy schemes, my lord and cousin!"
How well I remember my poor aunt Whitelock describing such phenomena as of frequent occurrence in America, and the scornful incredulity with which we heard without accepting these legends of her Western experience! how little I then thought that I should have to cry peccavi to her memory from the bottom of such ruts, and under the shadow of such flights of winged creatures as she used to describe from the muddy ways of Pennsylvania and the muddy waters of Georgia!
As soon as I was once seated her fan flew out, and she whispered behind it "Are you mad?" "Madly in love," I replied; "but in no other sense." "I have no patience! You cannot understand what I am suffering!" she said. "What are you to say to Ronald, to Major Chevenix, to my aunt?" "Your aunt?" I cried, with a start. "Peccavi! is she here?" "She is in the card-room at whist," said Flora.
The word "blackmail" resumed its buzzing in Mr. Ventnor's ears. The impudence the consummate impudence of it from this fraudulent old ruffian with one foot in bankruptcy and one foot in the grave, if not in the dock. "Yes," he said, "it's never too late to learn; and for once you've come up against someone a leetle bit too much for you. Haven't you now? You'd better cry 'Peccavi."
The light-hearted fairy stories which I wrote to cheer, so to speak, the sick-bed of an innocent child, sir, they have recoiled upon my own head. Peccavi, mea culpi, an' all those jolly old expressions that you'll find in the back pages of the dictionary." "Oh, Bones, Bones!" chuckled Hamilton. "You mustn't think I'm a perfect liar, sir," began Bones, earnestly.
Then the word that had struggled for utterance came, and it was in Latin: "Peccavi." It was only that word, but it was enough to make the old Major lean forward, clap one hand on the lad's shoulder, and half-whisper: "Spoken like your father's son!" and then, as the door behind him opened, he half-shouted, "Coming!" Then to his companion, "Now, my lad dinner!"
"If she once gets him within range of her guns, she'll not let him go till he cries peccavi." Ellen was seated on a rock which formed the highest part of the headland.
Plaistow that some women can wear a wonderful gown and others ha!" "Dear Major Benjy," said she. "Cruel of you to poor Diva." But instantly her happiness was clouded again, for the Padre had a very ill-inspired notion. "What ho! fair Madam Plaistow," he humorously observed to Miss Mapp. "Ah! Peccavi! I am in error. It is Mistress Mapp. But let us to the cards!
According to Punch the news of the battle was transmitted to headquarters in one word: "Peccavi." A quarrel then broke out between the great English leaders, and Western India was divided into the two opposing camps of Outramists and Napierists, Burton, of course, siding with the latter.
If he had had his choice, he would rather not have had another interview with his host until he was at liberty to confess all and say peccavi. Even "Gwen's father's" announcement of himself did not warrant his breaking his promise. "There is no light," said the visitor, "except mine that I have brought with me.
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