In good time, nevertheless, as the ardor of youth declines; as years and dumps increase; as reflection lends her solemn pauses; in short, as a general lassitude overtakes the sated Turk; then a love of ease and virtue supplants the love for maidens; our Ottoman enters upon the impotent,
repentant, admonitory stage of life, forswears, disbands the harem, and grown to an exemplary, sulky old soul, goes about all alone among the meridians and parallels saying his prayers, and warning each young Leviathan from his amorous errors.
As to the worthy convive of the preceding evening, he was carefully gathered up from the hunter's couch on which he lay,
repentant and supine, and, being packed upon one of the horses, was hurried forward with the convoy, groaning and ejaculating at every jolt.
A month later, Mademoiselle Stangerson returned to her father,
repentant, her heart dead within her, hoping only one thing: that she would never again see her husband, the horrible Ballmeyer.
I will tell her that you are
repentant, and will do anything to gain her love again; that you are sad, and long to be forgiven.
"I see it all!" exclaimed the
repentant Betts--"FEEL it all, dearest, dearest Mademoiselle Hennequin; and I hope this exquisite work, this refined taste brought all the comfort and reward you had a right to anticipate.
She can play the
repentant wife, or resort to the primeval profession of her sex.
It was dark when supper was ready, and still no sign of Anne, coming hurriedly over the log bridge or up Lover's Lane, breathless and
repentant with a sense of neglected duties.
Accordingly, a few months after your departure for Ingolstadt, Justine was called home by her
repentant mother.
"Therefore, sire, your Majesty sees that they are come, quite contrite and
repentant, to offer you their excuses."
"You are unjust; I found him sincerely
repentant," observed the prince, after listening for a time.
And now, if you are truly
repentant, come and record."
de Lautrec had been recently engaged with the Great Captain Gonzalo Fernandez de Cordova in the kingdom of Naples, whither her too late
repentant lover had repaired.