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Dale, I was once in my life myself refused by a lady, and I was not indignant, merely indifferent to the marriage-tie." "My daughter has refused him, sir?" "Temporarily it would appear that she has declined the proposal." "He was at liberty? . . . he could honourably? . . ." "His best friend and nearest relative is your guarantee."
Our Judges look suspiciously on long delayed actions. And there are, too, women who regard the marriage-tie as indissoluble. She has had to combat that scruple. 'Believer in the renewing of the engagement overhead! well. But put a by-word to Mother Nature about the state of sin. Where, do you imagine, she would lay it? You'll say, that Nature and Law never agreed. They ought.
Well, but if there was danger of the marriage-tie effecting the slightest alteration of her character or habit of mind, wherefore press it upon a tolerably hardened spinster!
The writers interpret the narrative for their readers: Matthew takes Jesus' ideal of the indissoluble marriage-tie, as it is given in Mark, and allows, in the practical application of the ideal, divorce for adultery; he adds to Jesus' word about telling one's brother his fault "between thee and him alone" further advice as to what shall be done if the brother be obdurate, ending with "Tell it unto the Church."
All the principles that held society together in the fear of God and future retribution regard for human law respect for magistrates, parents, and the marriage-tie yea, in the very distinctions of virtue and vice, had been unsettled or taken away.
No! it turns to a fit of laughter, a little nervous perhaps, but unexpected and disconcerting dry and clear, pealing through the silence and warmth of the narrow paths, like a cascade of little mock pearls. Ah, there indeed is a marriage-tie which will be broken without much pain!
So solemn had been her engagement that the thought of loving another seemed almost like disloyalty to the marriage-tie. With a despairing sigh, she murmured, "Chained, chained." Then strongly arose the womanly instinct of self-shielding, and the purpose to hide her secret. An hour before, Gregory could not come too often.
On the time of service expiring, or the money being paid up, the marriage is publicly celebrated by feasting and riot. The females are generally chaste, and the marriage-tie is strictly kept, its violation being heavily punished by divorce, beating, slavery, etc. In cases of intermarriage with foreigners, the children belong to the father's country.
Lord Harford had set down nothing in malice. What he told Virginia is absolutely true. Philip Vansittart is in love with a gay, pretty child, whose winsome tricks have coiled her round his heart. He has never spoken one word of love to her, for he feels and knows himself as much bound to Virginia as though the marriage-tie he once so utterly abhorred linked them.
No! it turns to a fit of laughter, a little nervous perhaps, but unexpected and disconcerting dry and clear, pealing through the silence and warmth of the narrow paths, like a cascade of little mock pearls. Ah, there indeed is a marriage-tie which will be broken without much pain!
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