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How can it be accounted for that with such warm affections, such combustible senses, and a heart wholly made up of love, I had not once, at least, felt its flame for a determinate object? Tormented by the want of loving, without ever having been able to satisfy it, I perceived myself approaching the eve of old age, and hastening on to death without having lived.
He was willing to barter his young affections for five thousand dollars and a claim, even if the widow had been thrice as homely as she was. If he had known that Mrs. Brown was bent on marriage his way would have been clearer. His mind was made up. He would woo and win his fair hostess if he could. "When did Brown die?" he inquired. "Three weeks ago, stranger." "You must miss him."
"But, seriously, Trevanion," said I, nettled at the tone of raillery he spoke in, "you must see that there is nothing whatever in that business. I was merely taking my farewell of the fair Emily. Her affections have been long since engaged, and I " "Only endeavouring to support her in her attachment to the more favoured rival. Is it not so?" "Come, no quizzing.
"Grex is very old, and very wild, and very uncomfortable. But I love it dearly. Matching is the very reverse of Grex." "Not I hope in your affections." "I did not mean that. I think one likes a contrast. But I must go, say on the first of January, to pick up Miss Cassewary." It was certain, therefore, that she was going on the first of January.
She returned to England, and the bitter tears she shed at parting were the last I saw flow for love of me for many years. My grief was terrible: I had no friend but her in the whole world. By degrees I became reconciled to solitude but no one supplied her place in my affections. I lived in a desolate country where
This is why all ought to mortify all their passions and affections, and absolutely to bend their understanding under the yoke of obedience, to live, in short, no longer according to the old man, but entirely according to the new man, in holiness and in justice.
Not that he heeded a monopoly of the parental feelings and affections, nor even that he meditated murdering Maria oh dear, no: rather too troublesome that, and quite unnecessary; it would be entirely sufficient if he could manage so to influence his father as to cut that superfluous sister Maria very short indeed in the matter of cash.
The law of nature forces no man into a state that is not in harmony with his sympathies and affections. Nevertheless, it must be admitted that to a certain extent the race suffers numerically from an institution that fosters abstention from marriage. To what extent, is an entirely different question. Not all laymen marry.
In the next place, your profession requires, more than any other, the nicest and most distinguished good-breeding. You will negotiate with very little success, if you do not previously, by your manners, conciliate and engage the affections of those with whom you are to negotiate.
As to the cause for which he is disposed to fasten a quarrel upon me, I am ignorant of it, unless it be that he accuses me, most unjustly, of having engaged the affections of a young lady in prejudice of his pretensions. 'If there is an error, said the Chieftain, 'it arises from a conversation which I held this morning with his Royal Highness himself.
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