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We finally decided on the route to be pursued next morning, and with a chastened hope in both our breasts we returned to our shelter.
-It was the speech, mark you, the professor said, of a finished orator, full of courteous haughtiness and pouring in chastened diction I will not say the vials of his wrath but pouring the proud man's contumely upon the new movement.
That sounds ill-natured: but she was so proud it became really impossible to pity her distresses, till she should be chastened into more humility.
It is right that I should be chastened in some penalty.
As I look out on the night, my tears fall fast, and my undisciplined heart is chastened heavily-heavily.
He returned each time chastened but quickly involved in new controversies.
, does not apologize but does look more chastened than he did last weekend on Meet the Press .
Bradley, by contrast, talks like an only slightly chastened Mondale liberal.
) Another TV gesture of regret is voluntarily giving up a desired pleasure, most often tickets to The Rock Concert forsworn by a chastened teen.
and his chastened brother--the Shopping Avenger is resisting the urge to gloat--went to Ryder.
But unlike Bradley, he came away from the 1960s chastened by nobility's limits.
The move, which once upon a time would have been seen as dynamite, is now widely viewed as a pop-gun in the hands of chastened Republicans looking for an impeachment exit strategy that won't shoot them in the other foot.
The European belligerents, inured and case-hardened as they were to a militarist environment, had not been sufficiently chastened by their self-slaughter.
"And so, brother" (it was at this point that Pierre came up), "ten years or more passed by.
The old man was living as a convict, submitting as he should and doing no wrong.
Only he prayed to God for death.
Well, one night the convicts were gathered just as we are, with the old man among them.
And they began telling what each was suffering for, and how they had sinned against God.
One told how he had taken a life, another had taken two, ... othing.
So they asked the old man: 'What are you being punished for, Daddy?'-'I, my dear brothers,' said he, 'am being punished for my own and other men's sins.
But I have not killed anyone or taken anything that was not mine, but have only helped my poorer brothers.
I was a merchant, my dear brothers, and had much property.
'And he went on to tell them all about it in due order.
'I don't grieve for myself,' he says, 'God, it seems, has chastened me.
Only I am sorry for my old wife and the children,' and the old man began to weep.
Now it happened that in the group was the very man who had killed the other merchant.
'Where did it happen, Daddy?' he said.
'When, and in what month?' He asked all about it and his heart began to ache.
So he comes up to the old man like this, and falls down at his feet! 'You are perishing because of me, Daddy,' he says.
'It's quite true, lads, that this man,' he says, 'is being tortured innocently and for nothing! I,' he says, 'did that deed, and I put the knife under your head while you were asleep.
Forgive me, Daddy,' he says, 'for Christ's sake!'" We have not, it is true, ascended the plateau, but it lies before us, and even Professor Summerlee is in a more chastened mood.
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