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Betsy remained until that important day; went to the market with her cousin like a betrothed damsel; while Jenny, who had also been invited to accompany him, preferred staying at home; and, to place the matter beyond further dispute, he bought and presented the former with a gown, so fine and so costly, that those who had seen it declared "there wasna anither like it selled that day i' the town."
I remember his birthday always." "It has been a short always." "No, not so short. Two years is not a short time to know a friend." "But he has not been betrothed to you for two years?" "No; not betrothed to me." "Nor has he loved you so long; nor you him?" "For him, I can only speak of the time when he first told me so." "And that was but the other day but the other day, as I count the time."
In the meantime, his betrothed, Lilias, being in danger at home, had been bestowed in the household of the Countess of Warwick, where she had been much with an admirable and saintly foreign lady, Esclairmonde de Luxembourg, who had taken refuge from the dissensions of her own vexed country among the charitable sisterhood of St. Katharine in the Docks in London.
His progress was slow, for the old gentleman before him moved with incredible deliberation, wheezing as he went. What was he to do? Should he address the Vandeleurs by name as he went by? Should he take the flower from his button-hole and throw it into the box? Should he raise his face and direct one long and affectionate look upon the lady who was either his sister or his betrothed?
He quietly lighted a cigarette and smiled good-humouredly all the time. "My dear Teresina," he said, when she had finished, "what in the world do you think I wanted of you? Not only am I paying court to your signorina, as you say, but I am already betrothed to her, since last night. You did not know that?" "The greater the shame!" exclaimed the girl, growing angry. "Not at all, my dear child.
"Not for money," she answered, "but if I may pass the first night outside the door of the room where your betrothed sleeps, I will give it up to you."
I am pursued by soldiers for having defended myself against a mestizo who attacked me, and levelled him to the ground with a blow from my poignard. This mestizo is the betrothed of a young girl whom I love. Now, señor, you can deliver me to my enemies, if you judge it noble and right."
But he had a message to leave it was enclosed in a letter which he put into the hand of the minister. "It is for Annette Marton. Oh, my God. We have been only two days betrothed. It is very hard to die." "This doom was ordained for you, and you must try to meet it like a man." "Oh, it is not death I fear. That is nothing. But, ah, to leave my love."
In the face of the younger girl Haco recognised Thyra, the last-born of Githa, though he had but once seen her before the day ere he left England for the Norman court for the face of the girl was but little changed, save that the eye was more mournful, and the cheek was paler. And Harold's betrothed was singing, in the still autumn air, to Harold's sister.
My mother taught me to be kind and helpful to others in the house, to my friends, and fellow-citizens; my own heart tells me to be faithful to my betrothed. But I care not greatly for the Romans, and what to me are Gauls, Dacians, or whatever else these barbarians may be called?" "And yet," said Philostratus, "you offered a sacrifice for the foreign tyrant."
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