Someone will let her in and she'll be sorry and contrite and terribly sad, and then a few days later, she'll bring a bunch of friends home or steal something.
The police brought the somewhat contrite young men and the dead couple's five-year-old orphan boy before my grandfather, who was a highly regarded judge and a man of impeccable reputation.
Margery's father, having privately ascertained that she was living with her grandmother, and getting into no harm, refrained from communicating with her, in the hope of seeing her contrite at his door.
But who is this Creator but thou, our God, the sweetness and wellspring of righteousness, who renderest to every man according to his works and despisest not " a broken and a contrite heart" ?
Will he bear about with him, —no odious grin of feigned benignity, insolent in its pretence, and loathsome in its falsehood, —but the tender sadness of a contrite heart, broken, at last, beneath its own weight of sin?
Has not my hand made all these things, and so they came into being" ? declares the Lord. " These are the ones I look on with favor: those who are humble and contrite in spirit, and who tremble at my word.