I forgive everybody, and hope everybody will forgive me.

As for Miss Poke, it will be a hard case; for she is altogether past expecting another consort, and she must be satisfied to be a relic the rest of her days." "Repentance, repentance, my dear Noah--repentance is the one thing needful for a man in your extremity." "I do--I do, Sir John, body and soul--I repent, from the bottom of my heart, ever having come on this v'y'ge--nay, I don't know but I repent ever having come outside of Montauk Point.

I might, at this moment, have been a school-master or a tavern-keeper in Stunnin'tun; and they are both good wholesome berths, particularly the last.

Lord love you! Sir John, if repentance would do any good, I should be pardoned on the spot." Here Noah caught a glimpse of Bob grinning in the crowd, and he asked of the executioners, as a last favor, that they would have the boy brought near, that he might take an affectionate leave of him.

This reasonable request was complied with, despite of poor Bob's struggles; and the youngster had quite as good reasons for hearty repentance as the culprit himself.