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" ” She sat for a long time in the same attitude, and when, presently, she raised her head and spoke, he saw with contrition that her lips were quivering; she even stretched one hand toward him for a moment, as though to ask his pardon.
She was always filled with the deepest contrition afterward; was always a thousand times kinder and gentler to him than she had been before, so that the misery he had suffered was more than atoned for.
And careworn hearts were there and toilers for their daily bread and many who had erred and wandered, their eyes wet with contrition but for all that bright with hope for the reverend father Father Hughes had told them what the great saint Bernard said in his famous prayer of Mary, the most pious Virgin's intercessory power that it was not recorded in any age that those who implored her powerful protection were ever abandoned by her.
For myself, I felt so much self-reproach and contrition for my part in what had happened, that nothing would have enabled me to keep back my tears but the fear that Steerforth, who often looked at me, I saw, might think it unfriendly-or, I should rather say, considering our relative ages, and the feeling with which I regarded him, undutiful-if I showed the emotion which distressed me.
I found them to be the perfect isolation of prisoners-so that no one man in confinement there, knew anything about another; and the reduction of prisoners to a wholesome state of mind, leading to sincere contrition and repentance.
But usually at least a nanosecond of contrition is required.
During the Iran-Contra affair, no comparable gestures of contrition were forthcoming from Republicans.
"" Others have charged that the president's contrition regarding the U.
His contrition was so winning that one cartoonist suggested he could make big money as a spokesman for governments accused of human rights abuses.
What is the percentage? And I said, Miss;’ here Sissy fairly sobbed as confessing with extreme contrition to her greatest error; ‘I said it was nothing.
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