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"Speak, girl!" he roared, his black eyes fixed fiercely upon her. "Why are you in Ostrog? You are no provincial you know." "She is my affianced wife," I said, "and in face of that document she need make no reply to any of your questions. Read what His Majesty commands." "Thank you, sir. I have already read it." But I knew he could not read English.
At the age of twenty he had been affianced to Maria of Portugal; daughter of Prince Edward, granddaughter of King Emanuel, and his nuptials with that peerless princess were; as we have seen, celebrated soon afterwards with much pomp in Brussels. Sons and daughters were born to him in due time, during his subsequent residence in Parma.
"They are privileged persons, however," said Mary Seton. "That sickly youth who has just joined the queen and is awkwardly endeavouring to make himself agreeable is her affianced husband, the Dauphin. For my part I would rather not be a queen than be compelled to wed so miserable an object; but I am talking treason.
Peter Steinmarc, now that he was an engaged man, affianced to a young bride, was urgent from day to day with Madame Staubach that the date of his wedding should be fixed. He soon found that all Nuremberg knew that he was to be married.
She dared not mention him to her father, and still less could she apply for information to his rival, her now affianced bridegroom. How much, or how little, her father had disclosed concerning him to Sol she did not know; but the latter had evidently closed with the terms which she had in her late strait accepted on her own part.
"I suppose he is here in the character of Eeny's suitor?" "More than that, my dear. He is here in the character of Eeny's affianced husband. They are to be married next month." Rose uttered an exclamation an exclamation of dismay. She certainly had never dreamed of this. "The marriage would have taken place earlier, but was postponed in expectation of your and Kate's arrival.
A significant entry in the "Journal" says: "A wife would be the salvation of me," and Lord Byron became a suitor for the hand of Miss Milbanke, a relative of Lady Melbourne. His proposal was not at first accepted, but a correspondence ensued between them, and in September, 1814, after the appearance of "The Corsair" and "Lara," they became formally affianced.
"It is a strange chance that you two should know each other," he said, "and very well, too, if I may judge from your manner of addressing her?" I moved to a place behind her chair, and laid my hand on it. "This lady is my affianced wife," I replied. He did not change color. For an instant not a muscle moved.
He found her; in rapid and hasty words, he signified the wish of the dying man, and hurried her, confused, trembling, and scarce conscious of the melancholy scene she was about to witness, to the side of her affianced bridegroom.
As at a blow they had become affianced, so, with no stage between, but in immediate sequence perfectly natural to them both, the natural repercussion of the blow, they talked immediately of betrothal's consummation, of marriage, of their marriage. About marriage Rosalie had immensely much to tell Harry. It was what she had principally to say, and this is how and why and what she told him.
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