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Because I am Protector of England, am I to be the only slave in its empire? My privacy invaded, my actions censured, my friends insulted? But I will get rid of the whole together. Be you witnesses," and he took the star, insignia of office, from his breast, and threw it on the table. "I renounce my office, I abdicate my power assume it who will!"
Leger, that, with that arrogance which relations, however distant, think themselves authorized to assume, he enjoined his cousin, upon pain of forfeiture of favour and fortune, to renounce all idea of so disparaging an alliance.
I suppose, I know, even, that it was your intention to give me a dowry ten times as valuable. Now, I am ready to renounce nine-tenths, orally, in writing, in every form and every manner indicated by you, but I beg you, as a favor, I beg you earnestly, for this one-tenth, and beg that I may receive it without delay."
"Damsel," saith Perceval, "Never, please God, shall there be hindrance of me but that you renounce this evil Law and believe in the good." "Sir," saith she, "Do you renounce yours for love of me, and I will do your commandment and your will." "Damsel," saith Perceval, "Nought availeth to tell me this. Were you man like as you are woman, your end would have come with the others.
Ibsen and Dumas are precisely cases of men, men in their degree, in their poor theatrical straight-jacket, speculative, who have HAD to renounce the finer thing for the coarser, the thick, in short, for the thin and the curious for the self-evident. The dramatist has to choose but those he's most capable of, and by that choice he's known."
But still he determined to renounce agitation among the people. He was even ready to calm the impatient, so as not to increase trouble for the pharaoh. A couple of weeks later Pentuer entered the boundaries of Lower Egypt, looking about on the way for the wisest of common men and artisans from whom it would be possible to select delegates to the assembly summoned by the pharaoh.
"And do you remember what Alexey Ivanovich said about the necessity for a man to live a complete life with all the power of his soul and body do you remember?" "That's not for us! How can you attain completion? It does not exist for you. If you love the future you must renounce everything in the present everything, brother!" "That's hard for a man!" said the Little Russian in a lowered voice.
But it is more easy and agreeable in this country to bury undeserved want in dungeons than to renounce unnecessary and useless show to relieve it. In the evening the remembrance of these sixty thousand livres of the poor Chevalier deprived me of all pleasure in beholding the sixty thousand lamps decorating and illuminating Bonaparte's palace of the Tuileries.
"How now," he said, "our world contemning daughter Are you robed for a hunting party, or for the convent, this morning? Speak answer." "For which your highness pleases, sire," said the Princess, scarce raising her voice above her breath. "Ay, doubtless, you would persuade me it is your desire to quit the Court, Joan, and renounce the world and its vanities.
Payment for his service to Aline Harley was to be given, and the ledger balanced. Well, why not? Had he not spent the night in a chaotic agony of renunciation? But to renounce voluntarily was one thing, to be bought off another.
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