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The wretch, I think you were kind enough to call him so, whom I swore to love and obey, is so base that he can only be thought of with repulsive disgust. In the council chamber of my heart I have divorced him. To me that is as good as though aged lords had gloated for months over the details of his licentious life. I care nothing for what the world can say. Will you be as frank?
"Oh," he thought bitterly, "if I could only feel as coldly toward Catherine as she feels toward me!" His resolution had resisted much; but this final trial of his self-control was more than he could sustain. He dropped into a chair his pride of manhood recoiled from the contemptible weakness of crying he tried to remember that she had divorced him, and taken his child from him. In vain! in vain!
He debarred infamous women the use of litters; as also the right of receiving legacies, or inheriting estates. He struck out of the list of judges a Roman knight for taking again his wife whom he had divorced and prosecuted for adultery.
When the sun was well up we came to the banks of the river, and there I found my wife Macropha, and with her the two children. They rose as I came, but I frowned at my wife and she gave me no greeting. Those with me looked at her askance. "I have divorced this woman," I said to them.
Perhaps you remember my father a sweet-natured, wiry, active man, incapable of conceiving an interest in life that was divorced from respectability. I think he had some imagination, for now and then he was troubled about my becoming a loafer. However, he certainly kept it in control: I was to become a great mill owner. It was all luck at first: you were luck, and the Tech. was luck.
My own apartment, I remember, included "Advice to Mothers" I wrote that with the assistance of my landlady, who, having divorced one husband and buried four children, was, I considered, a reliable authority on all domestic matters; "Hints on Furnishing and Household Decorations with Designs" a column of "Literary Counsel to Beginners" I sincerely hope my guidance was of better service to them than it has ever proved to myself; and our weekly article, "Straight Talks to Young Men," signed "Uncle Henry."
The wretch, I think you were kind enough to call him so, whom I swore to love and obey is so base that he can only be thought of with repulsive disgust. In the council chamber of my heart I have divorced him. To me that is as good as though aged lords had gloated for months over the details of his licentious life. I care nothing for what the world can say. Will you be as frank?
Edith " "Is one of 'em married?" he exclaimed, his face clouding. "She's divorced at present. She married a scamp in the East who wanted her for her money, and " "Never mind," interrupted Corky hastily. "I don't care to hear the family scandal. Where does she live?" "New York City, most of the time. You may have seen her.
"I really must go now," she continued, "for I am tired. Thank you and good-night." Alden did not answer in words. He took the hand she offered him, held it firmly in his own, stooped, and kissed the hollow of her elbow, just below the sleeve. Asking Not Answer "She's married, and he isn't dead, and they're not divorced. She's married and he isn't dead, and they're not divorced."
It was possible that even that terrific injury might not be fatal to a thing so great and flexible of brain, and so divorced from the ills as well as the powers of the flesh. But for the moment at least it was helpless, an inert mass on the patient backs of the termite team. "To the acid vat," snapped Jim. "We'll make our last stand there."
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