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Then I followed my uncle, and arrived in time to save him from falling; he leant his head on my breast, and I heard him murmur: "It is he it is he! He has watched us! -he repents!" The next day Lady Ellinor called; but, to my great disappointment, without Fanny.
What are love and friendship worth if they cannot stand against such trials as these?" "Do you mean, Edith, that no crime would separate you from a friend?" "I have not said that. There are circumstances always. But if she repents, as I am sure she does, I cannot bring myself to desert her. Who else is there that can stand by her now; what other woman?
"Sire, it is not for me to crave pardon of living man, but the grievous affront put upon my state and mine honour hath led my words to an excess which my heart repents. I grieve that your Grace's highness hath chosen this alliance; hereafter you may find at need what faith is to be placed in Burgundy." "Darest thou gainsay it?" exclaimed De la Roche.
He was a world thinker, but with his own country forefronted in the playing of a colossal part. It appealed to my English blood, that blood which does great deeds through great vision, and then repents the iniquities along the way and corrects them at last. And who was Douglas in spirit? Nothing less than the English genius. And so my feelings were mixed, but admiration for him predominated.
Her face was very white; her nails pressed into her smooth arms, her breath came thick and spasmodically, and her eyes flamed with the intense passion of a strong spirit thoroughly aroused. "Go, Quintus," she cried, with a strained, loud voice, "go, and never see my face again, until my uncle repents of his cruel madness! He is master here; only woe will come from defying him.
He was firm in his determination to clip Anne's claws; he would take no chances with youth, ultimate propinquity, and the wiles of a repentant sinner. "You can guard against anything," said he in his wisdom, "except the beautiful woman who repents. You never can tell what she'll do to make her repentance satisfactory to everybody concerned. So we'll take no chances with Anne.
And when a soul comes to that state of mind, he has nothing more to do but to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. And he came in, trembling, and went down on his knees, and washed their stripes. When you get to that state of mind, you will soon get saved. You will have nothing more to do but to believe. You will find it easy work, then. II. When is a sinner to believe? When he repents?
Elsie had conveyed the children to their nurse, and was beside him. "Perhaps she repents!" The tone was dry and short; it flung a challenge to misdoing. "I doubt it! But Roger?" French stood still, pondering. "Keep him, darling intercept him if you can. If he must see her, I will come out. But we mustn't risk a shock." They consulted a little in low voices.
But of true repentance, it is written, that he who repents shall save his soul ALIVE. And how? The word for repentance in Scripture means simply a change of mind. To change one's mind is, in Scripture words, to repent. Now if a man changes his mind, he changes his conduct also. If you set out to go to a place and change your mind, then you do not go there.
But it presents itself to them thus: "How am I, a man who has acquired so much very fine learning, to turn this very fine learning to the use of the people?" And such a man will never answer the question, "What is to be done?" until he repents. And repentance is not terrible, just as truth is not terrible, and it is equally joyful and fruitful.
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