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I am as guilty as poor Dixon, if, indeed, he is guilty but he is innocent indeed he is!" "If he is no more guilty than you, I am sure he is! Let me be more than your friend, Ellinor let me know all, and help you all that I can, with the right of an affianced husband." "No, no!" said she, frightened both at what she had revealed, and his eager, warm, imploring manner. "That can never be.
Josephine's affianced, in the depths of his heart, retained a deep, unfulfilled desire, an unreached aim of his existence. The commanding general of the army in Italy had nothing more to wish, or to long for; he now stood at hope's summit, and saw before him the brilliant, glorious goal of ambition toward which the path lay open before him.
"Then have you also embraced the Holy Covenant, and you are numbered amongst the children of Abraham! Then may I look upon you as a brother indeed!" "Can you not look upon me as something more than a brother, Zarah?" exclaimed the Athenian. "Why should you not fly since you needs must fly from this dangerous spot under the protection, the loving, devoted care, of an affianced husband?"
She was affianced for reasons of state to a certain Prince and the wedding was to be made an event of international significance. There had arisen mysterious delays. Rumour and Imagination collaborated in the story and many things were said. There were suggestions of a recalcitrant Prince who declared he would not be made to look like a fool at least to this extent. People sympathised with him.
Hastily dressing, she consoled herself with the hope of a long letter from Martine, explaining everything and assuring her of his welfare; but the early mail brought nothing. As the morning advanced, a telegram from Washington, purposely delayed, merely informed her that her affianced was well and that full information was on its way.
It was afterwards, when the boys had gone to bed, that a seriousness fell upon those of them who were given to seriousness. James and Vera Nugent settled down squarely to piquet. Francis Lingen murmured to his affianced bride. "I don't disguise from myself and from you I can have no secrets that there is danger in the walk. The snow is very treacherous at this season. We take ropes, of course.
Now those who had charge of me in the dungeon had given out that I had escaped by the help of my master the Devil, and I was searched for throughout the country side. De Garcia also, finding that his cousin and affianced wife was missing, guessed that we two were not far apart. It was his cunning, sharpened by jealousy and hate, that dogged us down step by step till at length he found us.
"Not at all; I wouldn't think of getting engaged in a dog-cart." "Dammy might as well have said at once, the when be blowed! Anyhow, 'tis a fine day, and I hope next time you'll come as one." Fancy was duly brought out and assisted into the vehicle, and the newly affianced youth and maiden passed up the steep hill to the Ridgeway, and vanished in the direction of Mellstock.
Donna Tullia named the wedding-day, and her affianced husband departed in high spirits with himself, with her, and with his scheme. He felt still a little excited, and wanted to be alone.
To whom is Beatrice Meadowsweet affianced?" "To no less a person, Martha, than Captain Bertram, and there they are in a boat by themselves on the water." Mrs. Butler snatched up the spy-glass again, and after considerable difficulty, and some mutterings, focussed it so as to suit her sight. She was absolutely silent, as she gazed her fill at the unconscious occupants of the green boat.
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