" "Sir, I cannot repent.
this time she has provoked me when I could not bear it; and I'll make her repent it for ever!
And believe that your kindness has made me love you deeper than if I deserved your love: and though I couldn't, and cannot help showing my nature to you, I regret it and repent it; and shall regret and repent it till I die!
"'Isabella, let me in, or I'll make you repent!
But the poor dame had reason to repent of her kindness: she and her husband both took the fever, and died within a few days of each other.
" said Harding, "and perhaps repent.
Am I to struggle and fall and repent again?
No good could happen to her; it was only to be hoped she would repent, and that God would have mercy on her: He had not the care of society on His hands, as the world's wife had.
"Tom," she said, crushing her hands together under her cloak, in the effort to speak again, "whatever I have done, I repent it bitterly.
" Was not Stephen Guest right in his decided opinion that this slim maiden of eighteen was quite the sort of wife a man would not be likely to repent of marrying,—a woman who was loving and thoughtful for other women, not giving them Judas-kisses with eyes askance on their welcome defects, but with real care and vision for their half-hidden pains and mortifications, with long ruminating enjoyment of little pleasures prepared for them?
In her first ardor she flung away the books with a sort of triumph that she had risen above the need of them; and if they had been her own, she would have burned them, believing that she would never repent.
"Well, I think it's best as it is; if you meddled with it, sister, you might repent.
"There's folks I've lent money to, as perhaps I shall repent o' lending money to kin.
They aren't the best sheets, but they're good enough for anybody to sleep in, be he who he will; for as for them best Holland sheets, I should repent buying 'em, only they'll do to lay us out in.
"There's things you might repent of, Brother, for want of speaking to me," said Solomon, not advancing, however.
" "Well—oh—well—why, there was a great deal of fighting, and they were all blockheads, and—I can't tell it just how you told it—but they wanted a man to be captain and king and everything—" "Dictator, now," said Letty, with injured looks, and not without a wish to make her mother repent.
Some people miss that, and repent too late.
Take my word for it, that if you are in too great a hurry, you will certainly live to repent it.
It was painful to her to disappoint and displease them, particularly to displease her brother; but she could not repent her resistance.
" "Well, I hope you'll repent to good purpose," said Marilla severely, "and that you've got your eyes opened to where your vanity has led you, Anne.
