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Wagner stated his terms in a letter to his American dentist, Dr. Newell S. Jenkins, who practiced for a time in Dresden: "It seems to me as if, in my hopes regarding Germany and her future, my patience would very soon be exhausted, and that I might then repent not having long ago confided the seeds of the ideas embodied in my art creations to a more fruitful and promising soil. An association would have to be formed which would offer me, upon conditions of my permanent settlement there and as an indemnity once for all for my exertions...
...last edition. An editorial was pulled out and in its place was put Editor Walter Lippmann's "Valedictory," ending with a quotation from Mr. Valiant-For-Truth in The Pilgrim's Progress: "Though with great difficulty I am got thither, yet now I do not repent me of all the trouble I had been at to arrive where I am: My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it." On the front page was placed the farewell message of the Brothers Pulitzer, announcing...
...voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judaea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words: For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day. . . . Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. . . . Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls...
...trickster of gracious ladies and trusting peasant girls, committed the supreme effrontery of inviting to sup with him the marble effigy of an elderly commandant he had killed. Eerily enough the effigy accepted, appeared stark white at the riotous banquet hall. Awfully he warned his murderer to repent. When the swaggering Juan refused he was lapped accordingly into undying flames...
...Grace of God, you may realize the gravity of your fault, and hasten to liberate yourself from the penalty which it has brought upon you. "Yours very sincerely, "P. Fumasoni-Biondi." Attorney Daignault became an outcast from his Church. To get reinstated he had humbly, sincerely to repent. Last week in Rhode Island they whispered that Dainault had at last repented, begged forgiveness, that Mother Church would once more take...