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"Do you love this Fromont so dearly that you prefer to die rather than renounce him?" She drew herself up hastily. "I? Love that fop, that doll, that silly girl in men's clothes? Nonsense! I took him as I would have taken any other man." "Why?"
"Princess," said he, "whatever resolution a poor wretched woman as I am may have made me renounce the pomp and grandeur of this world, I dare not presume to oppose the will and commands of so pious and charitable a princess." Upon this the princess, rising up, said, "Come with me, I will shew you what vacant apartments I have, that you may make choice of that you like best."
"And how does your father take it?" "My father is a true philosopher; he takes it as Socrates might have taken it; he laughs at the Count de Marville, who will, he says, want to sell the estate before the year is out, to pay his debts of honor the only debts he ever does pay." "If Bigot had anything to do with such an outrage," exclaimed Le Gardeur warmly, "I would renounce him on the spot.
But it hardly needed the gift of prophecy to inspire James with a fear of revolutions. He was secretly desirous therefore, sustained by Salisbury and his other advisers, of effecting the restoration of the provinces to the dominion of his most Catholic Majesty. It was of course the interest of England that the Netherland rebels should renounce the India trade.
Was it not true that if mankind would not renounce its claims to bread and other necessities, it must pay for the satisfaction of wants with the tribute of health and life? that every comfort, every pleasure added to existence was paid for by human sacrifice? that the masks of tragedy worn at this meeting were merely the corporate expressions of a law which united development and progress with pain and destruction?
"'Margaret, he began, 'no man ever renounced what I renounce to-night, for no man ever loved as I love you, though I reckon many a man would swear the same, knowing not his perjury for none can know my love. And joy, and pride, and home and all with which our pure thought had enriched our home all these must I surrender now. I must give up everything but love and that is mine forever.
Bonaparte, who was convinced that, in order to bring matters to an issue, Venice and the territory beyond the Adige must fall beneath the Hapsburg sceptre, wrote to the Directory that he could not commence operations, advantageously, before the end of March, 1798; but that if the objections to giving Venice to the Emperor of Austria were persisted in, hostilities would certainly be resumed in the month of October, for the Emperor would not renounce Venice.
I know that the power I am required to worship is anti-Christian; but I yield to save my life. I renounce your allegiance, and bow to the usurper. The beast is henceforth the object of my adoration; under his banner, in opposition to your authority, I henceforth array myself; to him, in defiance of your claims, I henceforth yield the obedience of my heart and life.
I will espouse its interests and its opinions: I will make myself beloved by it. The Old Man. You will act then like other men? you will renounce your conscience to obtain a fortune? Paul. Oh no! I will never lend myself to any thing but the truth. The Old Man. Instead of making yourself beloved, you would become an object of dislike.
This was the reason why, at my entrance into religion, I took a resolution to give myself up to GOD, as the best return I could make for His love; and, for the love of Him, to renounce all besides.
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