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"Then allow me to congratulate you on there being no truth in it. You see that is the beauty of nine affairs matrimonial out of ten there are two or more sides of them. If they come off the amiable and disinterested observer can look at the bright side as in this case, lots of money, romantic castle by the sea, gentleman of unexceptional antecedents, &c., &c, &c.
I'm sure those were the antecedents." "If you don't, I will." "If you will, I will too, Rod! Drive me over, that's a good boy, and I'll go."
My father, on the other hand, was in all his antecedents and his personal convictions, a devoted Whig, taking his creed from Alexander Hamilton, and worshiping Henry Clay.
If any human beings took no interest in your antecedents, surely it would be these two leisurely rowers and the superior person in the stern, with the oilskin cape? It was not summer-time far from it on the day that concerns this story, when two men in the garden of The Pigeons looked out over the river, and one said to the other: "Right away over yonder it lies, halfway to Barn Elms."
Some thoughts act almost like mechanical centres of crystallization; facts cluster of themselves about them. Such a thought was that of the gradual growth of all things, by natural processes, out of natural antecedents.
He went through the evidence of the four chief witnesses very carefully, and then said that the antecedents of these people, or even their guilt, if they had been guilty, had nothing to do with the case except in so far as it might affect the opinion of the jury as to their veracity. They had been called conspirators.
Since I discovered that I was the only heir of the Rheteau de Commarin, I have found out the antecedents of my new family. "Standing before the dwelling of my ancestors," continued Noel, "you cannot comprehend the excess of my emotion. Here, said I, is the house in which I was born.
Mary's relatives at Morristown were bitterly offended because of her marriage to a man of whose antecedents she knew nothing, and who was poor, and, still worse, a hated Continental soldier, for they were strong Tory sympathizers. They would have nothing whatever to do with Mary after her marriage.
'I shall go at once to my niece and tell her the whole circumstances tell her that, by marrying Sir William, she allies herself with an unhappy gentleman in the power of a criminal son who makes his life a burden to him by perpetual demands upon his purse; who will increase those demands with his accession to wealth, threaten to degrade her by exposing her husband's antecedents if she opposes his extortions, and who will make her miserable by letting her know that her old lover was shamefully victimized by a youth she is bound to screen out of respect to her husband's feelings.
The character and antecedents of that young man had been already delivered to her in the kitchen by the other help. With that single glance she halted; her eyes sought the ceiling in chaste exaltation. Falling back a step, she called in ladylike hauteur and precision, "Mary Emmeline and John Wesley." Mr. Hamlin glanced at the children. "It's Melindy looking for us," said John Wesley.
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