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Her maidenly instinct perhaps her duty to another took the alarm. I remember her words. 'But what will Dunn say? she asked. 'Will he not be jealous?" "Dunn! jealous! I don't understand," said Low, fixing his eyes on Wynn. "That's just what I said to Nellie. 'Jealous! I said. 'What, Dunn, your affianced husband, jealous of a mere friend a teacher, a guide, a philosopher.
Naturally neither Natasha nor her parents wished to hear of this, but Prince Andrew was firm. He came every day to the Rostovs', but did not behave to Natasha as an affianced lover: he did not use the familiar thou, but said you to her, and kissed only her hand. After their engagement, quite different, intimate, and natural relations sprang up between them.
Its mandates must be obeyed, and that instantly; they may not be opposed, no, not even questioned. Who has not seen some young woman of talent and virtue sacrifice herself to this mistaken impression? The plume of the soldier, the gay air of the debauchee, the flippant beau, the half-insane tippler, could she not have seen her doom in being affianced to one of these poor pageants of humanity?
It is Gustavus, for whom I have mourned so long, whom I accused of fickleness in deserting me." She had in truth recognised her affianced lover, who had mysteriously disappeared more than sixty years previously, but whose image she still bore in her memory. As he was not employed in the mines, no one thought of searching for him underground.
'Eugenie de Choiseul is the niece of the Duc de Choiseul, is she not? he asked. 'Yes, Sire. 'You are affianced! 'Yes, Sire. He shook his head impatiently. 'If you wish to advance yourself in my Court, Monsieur de Laval, said he, you must commit such matters to my care. Is it likely that I can look with indifference upon a marriage between emigres an alliance between my enemies?
She could not admit even to herself that she loved him, and yet she had permitted him to apply to her that term of endearment and possession to which a Barsoomian maid should turn deaf ears when voiced by other lips than those of her husband or fiance "my princess." Kulan Tith, Jeddak of Kaol, to whom she was affianced, commanded her respect and admiration.
Elise has promised to be mine, and she must redeem her promise." Still full of the passionate and defiant thoughts which the vicinity of his affianced bride had provoked, he had gone out to seek Elise. But to find her had become not only difficult, but almost impossible.
"You may attain the second part of your scheme, I admit, but the first seems to be difficult." "Is it? We shall see!" Capella flourished his papers and began a passionate avowal of the "treachery" practised on him in the matter of Margaret's parentage, ending by saying: "That woman's mother was the affianced bride of my father. She deceived him basely.
But at an interview between King Henry and Philip Augustus, now King of France, in November, 1188, Richard, apparently impelled by a suspicion that his father intended to leave his crown to his younger brother, John, and also professing to resent his father's conduct in withholding from him his affianced bride, the French king's sister, suddenly declared himself the liegeman of Philip for all his father's dominions in France; whence arose a new war, in which Philip and Richard speedily compelled King Henry to yield to all their demands, and a treaty to that effect was about to be signed when King Henry died, on July 6, 1189.
Having nothing more entertaining on hand, we entered the car and sat, whilst the village belles, and the newly affianced, and the young brides came for their miniatures. This was interesting; but when they were gone, my father and the artist entered upon a conversation which was far more absorbing to me, and indeed colored the whole of my subsequent life.
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