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I had no experience. I was but twenty-one." Mr. Alwynn stared at him in astonishment at the ease with which the admission was made. "How long afterwards was it that you were divorced from her?" "Two years. Two long years." "For what reason?" "Temper. Ah! what a temper. Also because I left her for one year. It was in Kansas, and in Kansas it is very easy to marry, and also to be divorced."
While we were in conversation, I inquired the name and character of the most striking women in the room, and found that, though a few of them might be reckoned substantial in fortune, as well as in reputation, the female part of the company was chiefly composed of ladies who, like herself, had suffered by the revolution; several were divorced from their husbands, but as incompatibility of temper was the general plea for such a disunion, that alone could not operate as a blemish.
They took me off to the country to the Robert Wallings'." "Ah," said Mrs. Alden; and Montague, struggling to make conversation, inquired, "Do you know Mr. Walling?" "Quite well," said the other, placidly. "I used to be a Walling myself, you know." "Oh," said Montague, taken aback; and then added, "Before you were married?" "No," said Mrs. Alden, more placidly than ever, "before I was divorced."
He had found something upon which he could exercise his mathematics. He and Novarra sat up all night in the belfry of the cathedral and watched the stars. They saw that they moved steadily, surely and without caprice. It was all natural, and could be reduced, Copernicus thought, to a mathematical system. Astrology and astronomy were not then divorced. It was astrology that gave us astronomy.
He was at the time of the rising engaged as an official of the Dublin Corporation, and had been married to and divorced from Miss Maud Gonne, a patriot of much the same type as the Countess Markievicz. It was he who had conducted the fight at Jacobs's factory.
A husband and wife may be divorced, and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other; but the different parts of our Country cannot do this. They cannot but remain face to face; and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between them. Is it possible, then, to make that intercourse more advantageous or more satisfactory after separation than before?
But moral instruction must not be too rudely divorced from the system of belief current among the generality; and the Bible had been the instrument of the clergy of all denominations, to whose efforts the mass of half-instructed people owed such redemption from ignorance and barbarism as they possessed.
He went to the court of Eleanor of Aquitaine, the granddaughter of the first troubadour, Guillaume IX. of Poitiers, who by tradition and temperament was a patroness of troubadours, many of whom sang her praises. She had been divorced from Louis VII. of France in 1152, and married Henry, Duke of Normandy, afterwards King of England in the same year.
Many a wheat-straw skirt and sharks'-teeth necklace may conceal a pure and honest heart." "Well, she's been married twice and divorced once, to begin with, and " "That's a-plenty, Joe." "And she has just completed her contract in the show and gone out to Reno to acquire a six months' residence in order to get rid of husband number two so she can take on Joey." "Who told you all this?"
I shall take her home to her father and mother tonight, and consult my lawyer tomorrow. He will conduct negotiations with you. The day Miss Knox is divorced from you without useless scandal or trouble-making, I will pay to you the sum agreed upon with my lawyer. If you prefer to make yourself objectionable, you will get nothing, now or later."