Man and Wife: A Novel, Band 9Harper & Brothers, 1893 - 562 Seiten |
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Anne Silvester Anne's answered appeared Arnold Brinkworth asked Bapchild bedroom Bishopriggs Blanche Blanche's brother chair cottage Craig Fernie cried dear door eyes face feel Fulham garden gentleman Geoffrey Delamayn Geoffrey's Glasgow Glenarm gone Ham Farm hand happened head hear heard Hester Dethridge Holchester's hour husband Inchbare inquiry interest Julius Karnegie Kirkandrew Lady Holchester Lady Lundie ladyship landlady lawyer leave letter living looked Lundie's Marchwood marriage married matter mean mind Miss Silvester mistress morning never niece night once opened passed Patrick pointed Patrick rose Perry person position question reply returned rose round Scotland servant side silence Silves Silvester's Sir Patrick speak Speedwell stairs stopped summer-house Swanhaven tell thing thought tion told took turned uncle Vanborough voice waited whispered wife window Windygates woman words write young
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Seite 162 - Sing, heavenly Muse ! that on the secret top Of Oreb or of Sinai didst inspire That shepherd who first taught the chosen seed In the beginning how the heavens and earth Rose out of chaos.
Seite 509 - Then Jael Heber's wife took a nail of the tent, and took a hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground : for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died.
Seite 163 - Say first - for Heaven hides nothing from thy view, Nor the deep tract of Hell - say first what cause Moved our grand Parents, in that happy state, Favoured of Heaven so highly, to fall off From their Creator, and transgress His will For one restraint, lords of the world besides.
Seite 19 - Mr. Delamayn stated the law, as that law still stands — to the disgrace of the English Legislature and the English Nation. " 'By the Irish Statute of George the Second,' he said, 'every marriage celebrated by a Popish priest between two Protestants, or between a Papist and any person who has been a Protestant within twelve months before the marriage, is declared null and void. And by two other Acts of the same reign such a celebration of marriage is made a felony on the part of the priest. The...
Seite 161 - OF man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly Muse...
Seite 47 - OLD as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet, Which once inflam'd my soul, and still inspires my wit.
Seite 439 - After what Lady Lundie has said in my wife's presence," Arnold burst out, in his straightforward, boyish way, "I think I ought to be allowed to say a word on my side. I only want to explain how it was I came to go to Craig Fernie at all—and I challenge Mr. Geoffrey Delamayn to deny it, if he can.
Seite 443 - Silvester has said," he resumed. "The husband who loves you, and the sisterly friend who loves you, have each made a solemn declaration. Recall your past experience of both of them; remember what they have just said; and now tell me — do you believe they have spoken falsely?
Seite 195 - Border, and to be married — without the interposition of the slightest delay or restraint, and without the slightest attempt to inform their parents on the part of the Scotch law. As to the marriages of men and women, even the mere interchange of consent which, as you have just heard, makes them man and wife, is not required to be directly proved : it may be proved by inference. And, more even than that, whatever the law for its consistency may presume, men and women are, in point of fact, held...
Seite 442 - I answer, Sir Patrick, as Mr. Brinkworth has answered. No such thing as the thought of marrying him ever entered my head. ' ' "And this you say, on your oath as a Christian woman?" "On my oath as a Christian woman." Sir Patrick looked round at Blanche. Her face was hidden in her hands. Her stepmother was vainly appealing to her to compose herself. In the moment of silence that followed, Mr. Moy interfered in the interests of his client. "I waive my claim, Sir Patrick, to put any questions on my side....