Word: repentantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Butterfield & Swire inserted an appeasing ad in Hong Kong's Ta Rung Pao. "This humble company," it read, "regrets its conduct in trying to deceive its passengers. Besides guaranteeing that there will be no similar recurrence, it inserts this notice specially in this newspaper to repent and to apologize to the passengers on that trip...
...even talked to him and asked him for a job. He got sore and said 'Goddammit' to me. That heated my ears, so I said 'Goddammit to you, also,' and then I shot him. Afterwards I went to the Quiapo church to pray and repent...
...hitherto been only a perfunctory Catholic and thus avoids the problem of his sin until the issue is forced by the return of his wife and the anticipation of their customary joint confession. He manages, however, to confess to the priest alone, but will not repent. The major is torn between Catholic judgement, in which he believes, and another morality which will not allow him to hurt either his wife or his mistress. ("I cannot love God at the expense of one of his creatures.") His solution of suicide is made with this set of values. He kills himself...