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"'I did mean to ask your permission to do so, Miss Eleanor, he said slightly embarrassed, 'and I was prig enough to think you would allow it, but when you told me of your engagement I did not dare. After you left I had a dread that something might happen, and I could not rest satisfied until I had made up my mind to come on and see that you had arrived safely.
"Love is to obedience like wings to the bird, or sails to the ship. It is the agency that carries it forward to success. When love cools, obedience slackens; and nothing is worthy of the name of love that leads to disobedience." We remember the anecdote of a Roman commander, who forbade an engagement with the enemy, and the first transgressor was his own son.
She announced the engagement. They had been invited to the same houses for the autumn. Necessarily they saw little of each other, and planned to meet in the less-frequented rooms and in the woods.
In the silence, Arnold took his leave. He had no sooner reached his own room than he reproached himself for his sudden retreat. Why had he not stayed, and tried to persuade the young lady to change her mind? An engagement for the theatre with a cousin might have been easily postponed. And he would like to have made her listen to some of his music. He would have compelled her to listen.
That will be your first acquaintance; you will never see the last of her." "No I know that," said Barker gloomily. "She will marry you out of hand after a three months' engagement. She will be married by Worth, and you will be married by Poole. It will be very effective, you know. No end of wedding presents, and acres of flowers.
And, as he thought of her, his heart burned with anger against the innocent girl at Beechfield who had dared to speak of this noble woman with something very like contempt. Cynthia was glad that she had no public engagement for that evening. She was invited to go with Madame della Scala to a large party; but she pleaded a headache, and begged to be allowed to stay at home.
My dear, they still talk about your engagement to Clarence Parker." Milly laughed gayly. "That!"... She added quite unexpectedly, "I suppose I ought to have married him really." "Milly!" "Why not?" Milly persisted in a would-be indifferent tone. "Then I shouldn't be keeping house for somebody else for my living." Mrs. Kemp gave her a quick look, and then turned it off with,
The marriage took place three days after the engagement, and the young pair made a bridal-trip to England, from which they returned a few months since." "And where are they now?" "They live in Berlin in an enchanting villa, which Lord Elliot has converted into a palace for his young wife. You will see them this evening, for they are both here, and "
However, I couldn't help feeling that I had learned which of the two was more anxious for the engagement to continue. "In what way was your uncle more definite in his threat last night, than he had been heretofore?" the coroner continued. Miss Lloyd gave a little gasp, as if the question she had been dreading had come at last. She looked at the inexorable face of the butler, she looked at Mr.
So far as the laws of conduct are determined by the intellect, I apprehend that they belong to science, and to that part of science which is called morality. But the engagement of the affections in favour of that particular kind of conduct which we call good, seems to me to be something quite beyond mere science.