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The code gives a good deal of information with regard to the family life of the Babylonians, and, above all, proves the sanctity with which the marriage-tie was invested. The claims that were involved by marriage were not lightly undertaken. Any marriage, to be legally binding, had to be accompanied by a duly executed and attested marriage-contract.
Verena was perfectly uncontaminated, and she would never be touched by evil; but though Olive had no views about the marriage-tie except that she should hate it for herself that particular reform she did not propose to consider she didn't like the "atmosphere" of circles in which such institutions were called into question.
'I was married to you, my lord. 'It's a tie of a kind. 'It binds me. 'Obey, you said. 'Obey it. I do. 'You consider it holy? 'My father and my mother spoke to me of the marriage-tie. I read the service before I stood at the altar. It is holy. It is dreadful. I will be true to it. 'To your husband? 'To his name, to his honour. 'To the vow to live with him? 'My husband broke that for me.
Neither was he so well acquainted with the habits of primitive races as to feel that an ideal combat for her, tomahawk in hand, so to speak, was necessary to the historical continuity of the marriage-tie.
Was the marriage-tie, for instance, really more sacred in France during the fifteenth century than in Italy? The 'fabliaux' and farces would lead us to doubt it, and rather incline us to think that unfaithfulness was equally common, though its tragic consequences were less frequent, because the individual was less developed and his claims were less consciously felt than in Italy.
'I was married to you, my lord. 'It's a tie of a kind. 'It binds me. 'Obey, you said. 'Obey it. I do. 'You consider it holy? 'My father and my mother spoke to me of the marriage-tie. I read the service before I stood at the altar. It is holy. It is dreadful. I will be true to it. 'To your husband? 'To his name, to his honour. 'To the vow to live with him? 'My husband broke that for me.
It therefore often causes needless and cruel repression; the most sensitive and aspiring spirits have often revolted from the morality of their times because of its harshness. It is well for the marriage-tie to be binding; divorce has generally been deemed unchristian.
The one effect of her marriage-tie seemed to be the stifling predominance over her of a nature that she despised. All her efforts at union had only made its impossibility more palpable, and the relation had become for her simply a degrading servitude. The law was sacred. Yes, but rebellion might be sacred too.
Lawrence Finchley and Lord Adderwood, which was an instance without resemblance; but Aminta's heart beat thick for what it wanted, and they were the instance of two that did not have to snap false bonds of a marriage-tie in order to walk together composedly outside it in honour? Oh yes, yes! She insisted on believing it was in honour. She saw the couple issue from the boathouse.
'It was posted before my swim: posted yesterday. 'You have fully and clearly thought it out to a determination? 'Bit by bit I might say, blow by blow. 'It is no small matter to break a marriage-tie. 'I have conversed with your mother. 'Yes, she! and the woman happiest in marriage! 'I know. It was hatred of injustice, noble sympathy. And she took me for one of the blest among wives.
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