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Once or twice, when Comethup had been away with the captain, he had heard on his return that his cousin had called; but when he went himself to his uncle’s house, to express his contrition, Mr.

” 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.

Comethup flushed with contrition, and determined to go to town at once.

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.

" "I am very much ashamed of myself," said Angela,[Pg 292] with contrition; "but, you see, what you ask is impossible.

Still, an act of perfect contrition.

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.

" feigned to be in a paroxysm of terror and contrition, occasioned by the dignity of my appearance.

" Here, to be sure, we must put aside entirely the blundering psychology of former times, which could only teach with regard to cruelty that it originated at the sight of the suffering of OTHERS: there is an abundant, super-abundant enjoyment even in one's own suffering, in causing one's own suffering-and wherever man has allowed himself to be persuaded to self-denial in the RELIGIOUS sense, or to self-mutilation, as among the Phoenicians and ascetics, or in general, to desensualisation, decarnalisation, and contrition, to Puritanical repentance-spasms, to vivisection of conscience and to Pascal-like SACRIFIZIA DELL' INTELLETO, he is secretly allured and impelled forwards by his cruelty, by the dangerous thrill of cruelty TOWARDS HIMSELF.

' 'Your having interfered in this dear boy's behalf before,' said Rose; 'your coming here, at so great a risk, to tell me what you have heard; your manner, which convinces me of the truth of what you say; your evident contrition, and sense of shame; all lead me to believe that you might yet be reclaimed.

" It was necessary for her mistress to comfort her-which she did, I must say, with a good deal of contrition-before she could be got beyond this.

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.

Wickfield, shaking his white head, 'has much matter for regret-for deep regret, and deep contrition, Trotwood, you well know.

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.

The statement is too self-absolving, deflecting blame away from Catholics: It should have expressed abject contrition.

" Robert Novak (CNN's Capital Gang ) is appalled at the "contrition mission," finding Clinton's slavery apologies logically flawed in light of the many prominent "African-Americans in government, in business, in athletics, in show business," who would not be Americans without the slave trade.

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