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Maulevrier crept up to the piano, and came stealthily behind the lovers. 'Bless you, my children, he said, hovering over them with outspread hands. 'I am the dove coming back to the ark. I am the bearer of happy tidings. Lady Maulevrier consents to your acquiring the legal right to make each other miserable for the rest of your lives.
When a girl of that class marries a gentleman, don't you see, and consents, too, mind you, to marry him privately, she can't expect to share much of her husband's company. She can't expect he should stultify himself by acknowledging her publicly before his own class.
Things come out somehow in the next world maybe for the Granny Castles, but they do. Now that idea of yours of fixing that cottage " "Oh, I forgot to tell you! My guardian says I may. At least he said that if I wanted a club, to help myself, and that must mean he consents. He's a dear. Have you time to go there with me now and just peek into it? I'm sure we can get in."
Her life will be made a burden to her until she consents to obey the king's command. Therefore, my object will be to secure her retreat to a convent where she will be well treated and happy. But we will talk of this again." It was not until the following afternoon that the marquis returned from Versailles. "I am off to the front again," he said.
He wears the dress, and he speaks the language of cities; he is acquainted with the past, curious of the future, and ready for argument upon the present; he is, in short, a highly civilized being, who consents, for a time, to inhabit the back-woods, and who penetrates into the wilds of a New World with the Bible, an axe, and a file of newspapers.
A young lady is desired by her father to marry a man she does not love, a rich man, much older than herself. She refuses, but, later on, consents to make the sacrifice. After a year of unhappy married life she meets a man of her own age, falls in love with him, and one day her husband surprises them together, in his rage kills them both and commits suicide.
The soul is in darkness, without being able to judge whether its terrible thoughts proceed from itself or from the evil one. It is no longer troubled at being cast off by God; it is so conscious of its demerit, that it consents to the deprivation of the sensible presence of God. But it cannot endure the thought that the taint of its corruption reaches even to God. It does not wish to sin.
Rupert opened the latter from Diana d'Etamps; it was as follows: "Adele has been ordered to marry the Duc de Carolan on the 15th. Unless she consents, she is on the 14th to be sent to the nunnery of Saint Marie, the strictest in France, where they will somehow or other wring consent from her before many weeks are over. They have done so in scores of cases like hers.
'You think her older than she is, and that is the error I fell into. She is a child. 'A serpent in the egg is none the less a serpent, Nevil. Forgive me; but when she tells you the case is hopeless! 'No case is hopeless till a man consents to think it is; and I shall stay. 'But then again, Nevil, you have not consulted your uncle. 'Let him see her! let him only see her!
But there is no medium better than that obvious one, that possession and property should always be stable, except when the proprietor consents to bestow them on some other person.
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