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There was not much delay about the marriages, and they were all celebrated on the one day. Soon after, the two elder couples went to their own courts, but the youngest pair stayed with the old king, and they were as happy as the happiest married couple you ever heard of in a story. From 'West Highland Tales. The Story of a Very Bad Boy
As for Ernest himself, his gratitude was greater than could be expressed in words. I have heard him say that he can call to mind many moments, each one of which might well pass for the happiest of his life, but that this night stands clearly out as the most painful that he ever passed, yet so kind and considerate was Towneley that it was quite bearable.
The pursuits I should have deemed the noblest and the purest seemed to me uninteresting and ignoble; the associations I ought to have felt the happiest and the highest appeared to me vulgar, and low, and commonplace.
"The father of my husband was then Earl of Tinemouth; and as he had never been averse to our union, he presented me with a cottage on the banks of the Wye, where I passed three delightful years, the happiest of womankind. My husband, my mother, and my infant son formed my felicity; and greatly I prize it too greatly to be allowed a long continuance!
Stipulations were made; a long agreement was drawn up; it was signed by the party of the first and duly executed by the party of the second part; sealed, witnessed, sworn to, and the priest was summoned. It was a happy marriage. The first three years of married life were the happiest Madame De Stael ever knew, she said long afterward.
And Charlie sat down at the writing table with alacrity, for these hours in the little room were his best and happiest. "Order is heaven's first law, and the view a lovely one, but I don't see any notepaper," he added, opening the desk and surveying its contents with interest. "Right-hand drawer violet monogram for the notes, plain paper for the business letter.
"Oh happy they, the happiest of their kind," who enjoy, in the peace and repose of a private station, a competency, good health, a love of, and power of indulging in, study; an unreproaching conscience, and a cheerful mind!
A few words from you should make me the happiest man in the world, yet you will not speak them." Then all the assumed lightness and carelessness died from his manner. He came nearer to her; her eyes drooped before the fire of his. "Madaline, my love, let me plead to you," he said, "for the gift of your love. Give me that, and I shall be content.
"Encouraged by your kindness," he said, "I will take this opportunity of recording the deeds and sufferings of a class of men to which this nation owes a debt of lasting gratitude a class of men among whom, I am always ready to declare, not only the earliest, but many of the happiest days of my youth have been passed."
I will, therefore, break off with assuring you, that whatever your sentiments may be hereafter towards me, my sense of gratitude to you can never be diminished or erased; and it would be the happiest moment of my life that should give me more effectual means than mere words to assure you of it.
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