Possible Clues:

• Self-denial is an element in complete lack of presence
• Practice of refraining from indulging an appetite
• Time not being there includes time in giving it up
• What is unusual in Antibes and odd parts of Cannes?
• Non-partaking (of liquor)
• Lack money to enter the Order of Rechabites ...
• Doing without money, in want
• A habit that will keep one dry
• Being away, holding cash — it's characteristic of the continent
• Laying off flipping idiot involved in non-23