Ally slanged Thurston right and left, and told him that if he chose to drink beer in a low 'pub' with the biggest blackguards in the school, he needn't expect that the fellows in the Sixth would have anything to do with him, and that he ought to send in his resignation as a prefect.

It was a letter signed by most of the prefects, suggesting that he should send in his resignation.

We've come simply to tell you thisthat after what's happened to-night the prefects are determined that to-morrow morning you send in your resignation to the doctor.

" "And supposing I don't choose to send in my resignation?" returned the other.

Thurston's resignation, as might have been expected, gave rise to a considerable amount of excitement and conflicting opinion.

A week later Carleton wrote again and sent in his resignation.

"On a cruise, I believe, a resignation is sent direct to the commandant of midshipmen.

He asked for a priest, to whom he devoutly made his confession, and with touching words of prayer and resignation to the will of his heavenly Father, he gave back his soul to God on April 30, 1524.

She smiled and nodded to encourage the poet, while the monarch leaned back in his chair with an air of resignation.

At the 1890 convention, the occasion on which Mrs. Barry sent in her letter of resignation, there was but one woman delegate.

Tell me about her," he said, with a resignation he did not feel.

No, I didn't know, but" Aunt Lyddy, with an air of mock resignation, gave up, while Joshua endeavored to fix, to a hair, the exact extent of his knowledge.

The combination of resignation and curiosity was most helpful.

This incident and others led next day to the enforced resignation of Lieutenant Angel and the election of George Chamberlain as his successor.

"To endure misfortune with resignation is the characteristic of a great mind,"Id., ib., p. 81.

But the edict was given and Paris obeyed, loyally and with resignation.

Yet the patience of these women never failed, and with a resignation which had something divine in it, they excused the delays, the official deliberations, the infinite vexations which they were made to suffer, by that phrase which has excused everything in France: "C'est la guerre!"

They submitted to all inconveniences, did any task as though it were a religious duty, and submitted to the rough life among men of foul speech with a wonderful resignation.

And should I be able to serve her in ever so little by going, no separation from all I love best, no loss of ease and quiet pleasures, will be too costly for me not to bear with resignation, nay, even with cheerfulness!

As for the King, she saw but little of him, for he was either closeted with his ministers or else sat alone, silent and apathetic, as if in resignation of that fate thrust upon him.

There, surrounded by seven hundred loyal gentlemen, whom he was to abandon as he had abandoned all his friends and servants, the King awaited his doom in apathetic resignation.

She never speaks the language of religious resignation like Anne and Charlotte.

It shrieks discord with the endurance and acceptance, braver than all revolt, finer than all resignation, that was the secret of her genius and of her life.

When the final, long-dreaded horror was reached, it was already a sorrow of the past, suffered and accepted with the resignation which is the close of grief, as of every other passion.

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