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And might not Herod attempt to induce the prophet to take back his ruthless sentence? "Come," he might say, "you remember what you said. If you unsay that sentence, I will set you free. I cannot, out of respect for my consort, allow such words to remain unretracted. There, you have your freedom in your own hands.
But of this I am sure, that if I have caused you unhappiness, I am very sorry to have done so. I cannot alter it all now; I cannot unsay what I said then, nor can I offer yon that which I have now absolutely given to another." And then, as she finished speaking, she did pluck up courage to look him in the face.
I know that Hugh felt sorry for his burst of temper the moment after, but he could not unsay the words, and I would not forgive them that is why he felt so badly when we parted on the train. I did not intend to tell you of it, Lancy; so do not look so vexed."
The King in this last missive had proceeded to unsay the advice which he had formerly bestowed upon the States, by complaining that his earlier letters had been misinterpreted. They had been made use of, he said, to authorize the very error against which they had been directed. They had been held to intend the very contrary of what they did mean.
'O Glaucus! said Ione, greatly terrified, 'what have we done? Let us hasten from this place; the storm has ceased. Good mistress, forgive him recall thy words he meant but to defend himself accept this peace-offering to unsay the said': and Ione, stooping, placed her purse on the hag's lap. 'Away! said she, bitterly 'away! The oath once woven the Fates only can untie. Away!
"Unsay, take back, those angry words," I said; and even as I did so the anchor went splash and I could hear the telegraph jingle in the engine-room. "And so you're rich," said Verna, "awfully, immensely, disgustingly rich, and you've been masquerading all this afternoon as a charming pauper!" "I don't think I said charming," I remarked.
"Only do not let it be too soon," she had said. Now he must unsay what he had then said; he must plead against his own pleadings, and explain to her that he desired to postpone the marriage rather than to hasten it, a task which, I presume, must always be an unpleasant one for any man engaged to be married.
Her eyelids fluttered and her bosom heaved, but she did not move, and Lucy was too much a Drayton to unsay what her father had said, or to undo what he had done. Oliver Hampden's eyes did not leave her face. For him the Major had disappeared, and he saw only the girl who stood before him with a face as white as the dress she wore. "Lucy, I love you. Will you ever care for me?
The bishop held the paper in his hand, and with a mind that he felt to be terribly open, asked himself how true that sharp indictment might be, and, granting its general truth, what was the duty of the church, that is to say of the bishops, for as Cyprian says, ecelesia est in episcopo. We say the creeds; how far may we unsay them? So far he had taken no open action against Chasters.
He didn't even do it for a woman." "For a woman!" cried Lucy. "What man would for a woman?" "I would." "You, Lord Mountfalcon?" "Yes. I'd turn Catholic to-morrow." "You make me very unhappy if you say that, my lord." "Then I'll unsay it." Lucy slightly shuddered. She put her hand upon the bell to ring for lights. "Do you reject a convert, Mrs. Feverel?" said the nobleman. "Oh yes! yes! I do.
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