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Updated: May 6, 2025

THE news which one day reached Gabriel, that Bath- sheba Everdene had left the neighbourhood, had an influence upon him which might have surprised any who never suspected that the more emphatic the renun- ciation the less absolute its character. It may have been observed that there is no regula path for getting out of love as there is for getting in.

Thomas Hardy - Far from the Madding Crowd

Newman begged him to remain silent and spare himself; the doctor had left urgent orders. "Oh," said Valentin, "let us eat and drink, for to-morrow to-morrow" and he paused again. "No, not to-morrow, perhaps, but today. I can't eat and drink, but I can talk. What's to be gained, at this pass, by renun renunciation? I mustn't use such big words.

Henry James - The American