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Then her incessant remorse deprived Madame de Renal even of the power to sleep; she never emerged from a grim silence: had she opened her mouth, it would have been to confess her crime to God and before men.
Of her own accord, the girl had the excellent idea of going to confess to the retired cure Chelan as well as to the new cure, so as to be able to give them both a detailed account of Julien's amours.
An under-master rebuked him severely; instead of seeking to excuse himself, Julien crossed his arms on his breast:'_Peccavi, pater optime_ (I have sinned, I confess my fault, O Father),' he said with a contrite air.
'There is something that I must at last confess to you, my dear abbe.
'I must confess to you,' he said to the Academician, and his eye continued the question.
She listens to me so meekly even when I confess to her all the sufferings of my pride!
We confess with sorrow, for we are fond of Mathilde, that she had received letters from several of their number, and had occasionally answered them.
Still playing with his theme, Julien did not yet confess to himself the whole of his thoughts; Madame de Renal had had no Marquis de Croisenois to sacrifice to him.
Why not confess it?
'The air of misery and profound passion with which the poor boy addressed those words of love to me a week ago, is proof positive; I must confess that it was extraordinary in me to be vexed by a speech so fervent with respect and passion.
A single moment may alter that proud spirit, and I must confess that I have treated her scandalously.'
Mathilde blamed herself severely for all the confidences she had made to Julien in the past, especially as she did not dare confess to him that she had exaggerated the almost wholly innocent marks of interest of which those gentlemen had been the object.
The genius of Tartuffe came to Julien's aid: 'Very well, I shall go and confess to him.'
The Academician will say that he has been warming a serpent in his bosom.''I must confess that I hardly expected so much cold reasoning, so much thought for the future,' said Mademoiselle de La Mole, half annoyed.
'I shall go to the King, I shall confess proudly that you are my lover: the life of a man, and of such a man as Julien, must outweigh all other considerations.
"Please don't ask for names, but do stop making these mistakes of yours, stop being so unyielding, there's nothing you can do to defend yourself from this court, you have to confess.
So confess to them as soon as you get the chance.
"And what if I don't confess, could you not help me then?" asked K. to test her out.
When he did stop talking, K. really thought at first that this was so that he would have the chance to confess that he was incapable of listening.
"Good sailor!" he replied in answer to a mild young man's envious query; "well, I did feel a little queer ONCE, I confess.
I must confess to enjoying that supper.
"I must confess I am indebted to the major for my reasoning - am I not, Aunt Jeanette?"
"I confess there have been moments when I have thought differently."
I confess, at first, it was very bad, but no man can censure him for desiring to see his parents."
"I must confess, sir," he exclaimed with heat, "that in receiving a minister of God, I thought I was admitting a Christian; and one who, by feeling his own weaknesses, knew how to pity the frailties of others.
Well, well, my lad, you are comfortably seated, I will confess, and that is something better than dancing upon nothing; but you are not to the west of the Harlem River yet, and I'll try your wind before you tell Sir Henry what you have seen."
I confess that I have eaten but little the last two days, and I crave some of the cheer you mention."
That was the most that I ever heard him confess of his past life, and he only shook his head and laughed when we tried to get something more out of him.
"You confess it!"
I struggled to get away, and yet did it but faintly neither, and he held me fast, and still kissed me, till he was almost out of breath, and then, sitting down, says, 'Dear Betty, I am in love with you.'His words, I must confess, fired my blood; all my spirits flew about my heart and put me into disorder enough, which he might easily have seen in my face.
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