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You may kill and hang for it, you may rob or rape; the moment you truly repent and set yourself to such atonement and reparation as is possible there remains no barrier between you and God. Directly you cease to hide or deny or escape, and turn manfully towards the consequences and the setting of things right, you take hold again of the hand of God.
Having been thus brought to the camp, he was immediately put on board a ship and sent to Carthage, lest if any commotion should arise at Capua on account of the injustice of the proceeding, the senate also should repent of having given up a leading citizen; and lest if an embassy were sent to request his restoration, he must either offend his new allies by refusing their first petition, or, by granting it, be compelled to retain at Capua a promoter of sedition and disturbance.
But I can't do it." "Why not? If I can do it " "You'd repent it, Jemmy. You're letting your love for me carry you too far." "What put it into your head that I'd do this for love of you?" "For Tristram, then." "Damn Tristram! That youngster strikes me as causing a fuss quite out of proportion to his intrinsic worth." "Well, but " "My dear Jack, I have reasons for wishing Tristram back.
The remembrance is never away from me. They bid those who repent put on sackcloth, and cover themselves with ashes. That is my sackcloth, and it is very sore. Those thoughts are ashes to me, and they are very bitter between my teeth." He did not know with what words to comfort her. It all was as she said, and he could not bid her even try to free herself from that sackcloth and from those ashes.
The debates on that occasion proved with what an ill grace they performed that scanty act of justice, and all experience since that period proves how bitterly they repent it.
On a warm summer day, while walking alone on the common which lay between home and Squire Horner's house, I was struck motionless by the thought that I had forgotten God. It seemed probable, considering the total depravity of my nature, that I had been thinking bad thoughts, and these I labored to recall, that I might repent and plead with Divine mercy for forgiveness. But alas!
If you do, you will soon live to repent it. What would you do, if after marrying this man you found there was some one you could love?" "I do not think it would come to that, Walter." "How can you tell? How can you prevent its coming to that, except by loving the man you do marry? You don't care two straws for Mr.
"Do you know who I am," demanded the squire, with ruffled dignity. "I know you perfectly well," answered Philip "but I am the owner of the violin, and I don't mean to have it sold." "YOU will repent this!" said Squire Pope, who felt that his lawful authority and official dignity were set at naught. Philip bowed and left the house.
"Oh! thou shalt live as long as Methuselah," said Varney, "and amass as much wealth as Solomon; and thou shalt repent so devoutly, that thy repentance shall be more famous than thy villainy and that is a bold word. But for all this, Tressilian must be looked after. Thy ruffian yonder is gone to dog him. It concerns our fortunes, Anthony."
Depart, and beware of ever appearing again in my dominions; no consideration whatsoever shall hinder me from making you repent of it. I was going to speak, but he stopped my mouth with words full of anger; and so I was obliged to leave his palace, rejected, banished, an outcast from the world, and not knowing what would become of me. And so I became a hermit.
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