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Was it the proof of our unworthiness and misdeeds, to which we all penitentially listened, as so eloquently set forth from the high places of light and leading the long lamentation over how on almost every field we had shown our incapacity; how unfit we were to govern cities, unfit to govern territories, unfit to govern Indians, unfit to govern ourselves how, in good old theological phrase, we were from head to foot a mass of national wounds and bruises and putrefying sores, and there was no health in us?
I perceived that Aunt Merce had aged since mother's death; her manner was changed; the same objects no longer possessed an interest. She looked at me penitentially. "I wish I could say," she said, "what I used to say to you, that you were 'possessed. Now that there is no occasion for me to comprehend people, I begin to. My education began wrong end foremost.
Evan stooped his shoulder, seized the soaked garment, and pulled it back, revealing the features of Polly Wheedle, and the splendid bonnet in ruins all limp and stained. Polly blinked at him penitentially. 'Oh, Mr. Harrington; oh, ain't I punished! she whimpered. In truth, the maid resembled a well-watered poppy.
Be philosophical, but accept your personal dues. Grant us ours too. I have a serious intention to preserve this young duchess, and I expect my task to be severe. I carry the banner aforesaid; verily and penitentially I do. It is an error of the vulgar to suppose that all is dragon in the dragon's jaws. 'Men are his fangs and claws. 'Ay, but the passion for his fiery breath is in woman.
I will call for you a little before, and we can go together. This will prevent a good deal of gene and constraint. Good-by till then. Ha! by the way, I think if I were you, I would not take the matter too seriously and penitentially. You see the best of fathers like to keep their sons under their thumb, as the saying is.
In fact, they have the same effect on secret traitors, which an imaginary apparition would have upon a private murderer. They sift out the hidden thoughts of man, and hold them up in public to the world. Many a disguised Tory has lately shown his head, that shall penitentially solemnize with curses the day on which Howe arrived upon the Delaware.
I will call for you a little before, and we can go together. This will prevent a good deal of /gene/ and constraint. Good-by till then. Ha! by the way, I think if I were you, I would not take the matter too seriously and penitentially. You see the best of fathers like to keep their sons under their thumb, as the saying is.
A boy who was reported to the Sister-in-charge, say, for some neglect of his work, would have his dinner stopped. In that case it would be his unhappy lot to stand with his hands penitentially crossed upon his chest, behind his place at table, while the rest of us wolfed our meal.
Of course, I ought to be her nursing mother in these parts" said Lady Tonbridge reflectively "I knew Sir Robert in frocks, and we were always pals. But my dear, it was I who hatched the cockatrice!" Nora nodded gravely. "It was I," pursued Lady Tonbridge, penitentially, "who saddled him with that woman and I know he never forgave me.
Hepburn penitentially knelt to pick up the fragments, and Westlake murmured over his head: 'As long as it is we who are the cracked. 'Did we not start from China? 'We were consequently precipitated to Stamboul. 'You try to elude the lesson. 'I remember my first paedagogue telling me so when he rapped the book on my cranium. 'The mark of the book is not a disfigurement.
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