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He decided it was worth the risk—he knew that Ed would likely be penitent and sweet at first—so he went back, but immediately started making plans for a permanent escape.
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Milne-Tyte p.76 At nearly two o'clock in the morning the jury retired, and in half an hour gave their verdict of guilty. The court then adjourned until ten o'clock, when sentence of death was pronounced against him. He was visited in prison by two of the university divines, Dr. Marshall and Dr. Hall, who declared him to be penitent.
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They've toured with MyChildren MyBride, The Crimson Armada, Chimaira, and other bands. The band also created their own symbol called the "Repentagram" combining the words repent and pentagram. The band explained the Repentagram with the following: > We’ve gotten a lot of mail questioning the Repentagram Logo, I would like to > take time right now to explain it to you all. First off we are a Christian > band and a real one at that, we would never put something out that had > satanic meaning or anything negative. We thought up the word "REPENTAGRAM" > basically putting two words together. 1. REPENT (meaning: to feel such > sorrow for sin or fault as to be disposed to change one’s life for the > better; be penitent.) 2.
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This contradicted the expectation that "properly feminine" women should be penitent and emotional in such a situation. Her succession of male friends, one of whom had fathered her child outside wedlock, suggested promiscuous female sexualityagain, strongly counter to expected norms of behaviour. During her trial Webster attempted unsuccessfully to evoke sympathy by blaming Strong, the possible father of her child, for leading her astray: "I formed an intimate acquaintance with one who should have protected me and was led away by evil associates and bad companions." This claim played on social expectations that women's moral sense was inextricably linked with chastity"falling" sexually would lead to other forms of "ruin"and that men who had sexual relations with women acquired social obligations that they were expected to fulfil.
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