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She wanted Charley to promise that for a time, at least, he would not attempt to see her. It seemed such a needless risk to take, couldn't he be satisfied if he heard from her every day? Charley was regretful, but firm. Just as soon as he could mount his horse he would ride down to Belle Plain. She was not to distress herself on his account; he had been surprised, but this should not happen again.
And then, quite suddenly, he rose, came across the room, and standing by her chair, he asked it. The room had grown terribly still. Even St. George ceased to purr. Rosemary heard her own heart beating and was sure John Meredith must hear it too. Now was the time for her to say no, gently but firmly. She had been ready for days with her stilted, regretful little formula.
We tried to get copies of the newspapers containing accounts of the crime that had been committed, but our efforts were unavailing, and it was not until we arrived in London and were visited by Barker's attorneys that we obtained any detailed information whatsoever of the murder; and when we did get it we were more than ever regretful to be mixed up in it, for it was an unusually brutal murder.
"No, she is not" and the old lady looked regretful "She has gone out to tea I'm sorry " "It's just as well" and Lord Blythe took one or two restless paces up and down the little room "I would rather talk to you alone first. Yes! that portrait of Pierce must have been taken in early days just about the time he ran away with Maude Osborne " Miss Leigh gazed at him enquiringly. "With Maude Osborne?"
But his wife is an English girl." "How sorry you must be now that he did not naturalise!" she exclaimed. An odd look came over Manfred Hegner's face. "Yes, it is very regretful the more so that it would do me harm if it were known in the town that I had a son in the German Army. But he will not fight against the English," he added hastily.
"It is certain, I suppose," said Nicolovius, "that they will name you?" "Oh, not at all by no means! I am merely receptive, that is all." Queed glanced at his watch and rose. "There is half an hour before supper, I see. I think I must turn it to account." Nicolovius looked regretful. "Why not allow yourself this minute's rest, and me the pleasure of your society?" Queed hesitated.
He was justly and greatly proud of her achievement; and where he used to be more regretful than he admitted even to himself when they had guests, he was now glad to see others about, admiring her taste, appreciating her skill as a hostess and giving him opportunities to look at her from an ever new point of view.
It was the girl's great pride, and had been sedulously cared for. "What lovely hair! It has just the wave that yours lacks, mother." "Yes," was the regretful reply, "I've never be'n able to git that wave out. But her hair's be'n took good care of, an' there ain't nary gal in town that's got any finer." "Don't worry about the wave, mother.
Later in the evening came Doctor Crimmins, very regretful and full of arguments in favor of postponing action. When twilight passed they went out onto the porch with their pipes and glasses. They talked as friends talk on the eve of parting, often of trivial things, with long pauses between. The moon came up over the tree tops, round and full, and flooded the garden with silver.
She sat quiet, looking into the heart of the fire while the thoughts coursed through her brain, and her long lashes hid from the man above her the glowing dreamlights in her eyes. Then he too pulled up a low chair and sat down, so that his head was more nearly on a level with hers, and still his eyes looked at her with that regretful, protecting expression.
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