By repudiating I understand the declaring of a fact to be false when we know it to be true.

I am not in the habit of doing that, nor should I suppose it of you, Herr Staatsanwalt." "I need no instruction from you," the other returned angrily.
"It would seem so, however" Schrotter calmly rejoined.
The magistrate grunted several times and then asked, after a pause, during which he was particularly busy with his ear: "You admit the statement, then ?" "Not altogether.

It is true that I said the attempt on the emperor's life had no general significance, but I meant by that and the rest of what I said, that if the political parties should make this isolated crime (committed by an undoubtedly insane person) the excuse for adopting measures inimical to the liberty of the public in general, they would be doing something both unjustifiable and reprehensible." "Can he have said that ?" asked the magistrate, turning to Patke.
"I don't know.

I only know what I said just now." Renewed grunting, renewed digging in the ear and turning over of papers.

"Hm--hm," he muttered to himself testily, "that is not enough.
It is too indefinite, in spite of strong grounds for suspicion." Then he looked up, and in a tone which was meant to convey as much scorn as possible, he asked Schrotter--"You played a part in the political events of 1848 ?" "Yes, and the recollection of it is the pride of my life." "I did not ask you about that.