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It's quite an old custom, and I engage to give you by to-morrow a long list of names invented by worthy people still living, who are allowed to enjoy their names in peace and quietness without being cited to the town hall to explain how they got them." "But you will confess that there are laws against false names?" "Yes, but I repeat this name is my true name.
Confess that you are of an inconstant nature. God knows who it is you have now housed in your heart. And I have been supposing for years it was I!" "Because I used to be fond of carrying you in my arms?" "I see! It was only because you had no children of your own!" "Time was when I had a wife and children enough," Sachs reminds her gently. "But your wife died, and I grew up!"
I told my story, and they believed it, though I had the audacity to say I was but nineteen, to talk Scotch, and bashfully confess that Sydney wished to marry me. Monsieur knows S. and evidently suspects something. I must watch him and keep the truth from him, if possible. "I was very miserable that night when I got alone.
After the silence of a minute, which seemed to be a century, he went and stood, with arms crossed on his chest, before the accused, and asked him, "Do you confess?" M. de Boiscoran sprang up as if moved by a spring, and said, "What? What do you want me to confess?" "That you have committed the crime at Valpinson." The young man pressed his hands convulsively on his brow, and cried out,
I, too I confess it often feel a great desire to give the power of imagination greater play, and I know the divinities in whom I have lost faith as well as any one; for I, too, was once a child, and few have ever prayed to them more fervently, but with the increasing impulse toward liberty came the perception: There are no gods, and whoever bows to the power of the immortals makes himself a slave.
"Oh, nothing at all," I said, seeing that I was going in opposition to immovable obstinacy. Still I am constrained to confess that hitherto we have been wonderfully favoured, and that for some reason unknown to myself we have accomplished our journey under singularly favourable conditions of temperature.
It means a readiness to "break" and confess at the feet of Him who was broken for us, for the Blood does not cleanse excuses, but always cleanses sin, confessed as sin; then revival is just the daily experience of a soul full of Jesus and running over.
It may be you will dislike me more for confessing the wrong than for committing it I can not tell; but it is my part to let you know it and none the less my part that I must therein confess myself more weak and foolish than already I appear. "You will remember that you gave me a copy of your drama while I was at your house: the review of it which appeared in the 'Battery' I wrote that same night.
"Ach, my good friend, you did not reach Asheville last night?" Unconsciously he frowned as he realized that if these men wanted breakfast he would have to confess that there was nothing to eat in the house. At the thought his instinct of hospitality and his pride both suffered. "Yes, Ah got to Asheville, and Ah've come back fo' you."
"I acknowledge that I love and serve my country, Lena." "Not with a pure heart: you can't forgive. Insult or a wrong makes a madwoman of you. Confess, Anna! You know well that you can't kneel to a priest's ear, for you've stopped your conscience.
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