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While the baronet was penning these records of vicious schemes dire waste of wealth and time irrevocable time! Marston paced his study in a very different frame of mind. There were a gloom and disorder in the room accordant with those of his own mind.

Josephine did not possess the cowardice to commit suicide; she was ready to receive the fatal blow, but she could not plunge the dagger into her own heart. Napoleon, unable to endure these tortures, longed to bring them to an end. He secretly made all the necessary arrangements, and communicated to the first chancellor, Cambaceres, his irrevocable resolution to be divorced from the empress.

Some trouble was in the young man's face, and some indecision was in the action of his hand, as Mr. Grewgious, looking steadfastly at him, gave him the ring. 'Your placing it on her finger, said Mr. Grewgious, 'will be the solemn seal upon your strict fidelity to the living and the dead. You are going to her, to make the last irrevocable preparations for your marriage. Take it with you.

And yet this season, while he made a prima donna by a bravissima, introduced a new tie by an evening's wear, gave a cook the cordon with his praise, and rendered a fresh-invented liqueur the rage by his recommendation, Bertie knew very well that he was ruined. The breach between his father and himself was irrevocable.

I do not know that amongst all the bonds by which evil holds a poor soul that struggles to get away from it, there is one more adamantine and unyielding than the consciousness that the past is irrevocable, and that 'what I have written I have written, and never can blot out. But Jesus Christ deals with that consciousness.

"I must go," he said, as he turned wearily from the window, "before she comes to the house again. I must go before another hour is over my head." With that resolution he left the room; and, in leaving it, took the irrevocable step from Present to Future. The rain was still falling.

If Napoleon had demanded on the spot the hand of the Czar's marriageable sister, Catherine, it is doubtful if Alexander would have refused. But the imperial host still vacillated, for he had not taken the irrevocable step; a hesitating mention was made of his guest's younger sister, Anne, who was still a child, as an eventual possibility, and nothing more was said.

He could not help regretting, too, that the quarrel had not been occasioned by some more definite and satisfactory provocation, something which merely to think of would steel the heart to irrevocable murderousness. But no blow had passed; even the words, though bitter to swallow, had been wrapt in the phrases of courtesy; and perhaps the whole affair was the result of some misapprehension.

The day of vengeance is at length arrived; Not living shall ye measure back the sea, The sacred sea the boundary set by God Betwixt our hostile nations and the which Ye ventured impiously to overpass. Oh, I must die! I feel the grasp of death! JOHANNA. Die, friend! Why tremble at the approach of death? Of mortals the irrevocable doom? Look upon me!

Æneam rejicite, Pium recipite, he exclaims in a celebrated passage of his Retractation, where he declares his heartfelt sorrow for the irrevocable words of light and vain romance that he had scattered in his careless youth.