Crossword-Solution: CONTRITELY 10 letters, 17 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

Long before the supper was over there had been thrust at her all manner of proofs that Spenser was again untrue, that he was whirling madly in one of those cyclonic infatuations which soon wore him out and left him to return contritely to her.

Why, she had asked herself contritely, couldn't she let Martin express his love in his own way? Why was she always trying to measure his feelings for her by set standards? “I've been wondering,” he had gone on quickly, “what you would think of putting up with my old shack while the new house is being built? It wouldn't be as if you were going to live there for long and you'd be right on hand to direct things.” “Why, I could do that, of course,” she had answered pleasantly.

The acuteness of the emergency is my only excuse, and I throw myself most contritely upon your mercy!” This second projection of himself upon a lady's mercy proved as successful as the first.

The--er--the--er--expressions you have quoted are not common to Boston, but emanate, I believe, from the West.” Carmen de Haro contritely buried everything but her black eyes in her shawl.

Contritely, therefore, and humbly he acknowledged his fault, and cast himself upon the mercy of Robespierre.