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So the princes that were courting the eldest ladies wouldn't give peace or ease to their lovers nor the king till they got consent to the marriage, and it was to take place this morning. Myself went down out o' curiosity, and to be sure I was delighted with the grand dresses of the two brides, and the three crowns on their heads gold, silver, and copper, one inside the other.
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"But he is so good and sensible," said I, "that perhaps if he knew " My mother, who until this time had made no change in her position, raised her hand up to my lips and stopped me. "Confide fully in him," she said after a little while. "You have my free consent a small gift from such a mother to her injured child! but do not tell me of it. Some pride is left in me even yet."
"The law against the admission of an immigrant, without the consent of the governor and council, is very clear and precise," answered the husband, looking grave. "That may be true, my love, but it would hardly do to tell the people they are not to worship God in the manner that may best satisfy their own consciences."
Monsieur was as much vexed as I. The King and the old woman threatened to dismiss all his favourites, which made him consent to everything; he repented afterwards, but it was then too late. I would to God that the Abbe Dubois had as much religion as he has talent! but he believes in nothing he is treacherous and wicked his falsehood may be seen in his very eyes.
I told you as much when we conversed on the subject." "What?" exclaimed Sir George, furious with anger. "You too? You whom I have befriended?" "I told you, Sir George, I would not marry Dorothy without her free consent. No gentleman of honor would accept the enforced compliance of a woman."
No slave could be kept in bondage more than ten years; it was stipulated that they were to be brought from Africa, or elsewhere, only with their own consent; and when, in 1638, it appeared that a cargo of them had been forcibly introduced, they were sent back to Africa.
Thus all consent to that maxim of Crassus, that a prince cannot have treasure enough, since he must maintain his armies out of it; that a king, even though he would, can do nothing unjustly; that all property is in him, not excepting the very persons of his subjects; and that no man has any other property but that which the king, out of his goodness, thinks fit to leave him.
But the old man spoke out with a loud and fearless voice: 'Though all the nations that are under the king's dominion obey him, and fall away every one from the religion of their fathers, and give consent to his commandments; yet will I and my sons and my brethren walk in the covenant of our fathers. God forbid that we should forsake the law and the ordinances!
Afterwards, by consent of her royal paramour, she married Gerald, constable of Pembroke, by whom she had Maurice Fitzgerald, the common ancestor of the Kildare and Desmond Geraldines.
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