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Neither the Saxons, nor the Danes, nor Norman conquerors transplanted them, but, after reducing them, incorporated themselves by marriages among the vanquished, and in some few generations were but one people.
As hospitality was the first of social virtues, so inhospitality was the worst of vices; the unpopularity of a churl descended to his posterity through successive generations. The high estimation in which women were held among the tribes is evident from the particularity with which the historians record their obits and marriages.
They declared publicly that they would pay the old taxes to King, curate, and lord, but that they would pay no more, or hear a word of any other taxes or vexation. In the end it was found necessary to drop this tax upon baptism and marriages, to the great regret of the tax-gatherers, who, by all manner of vexations and rogueries, had enriched themselves cruelly.
For they ask that, contrary to divine law, contrary to the law of nations, contrary to the canons of Councils you sunder marriages, in order to impose merely for the sake of marriage atrocious punishments upon innocent men, to put to death priests, whom even barbarians reverently spare, to drive into exile banished women and fatherless children.
It is always a question, as marriages are now made, whether, when passion has had time to cool, husband and wife will love or detest each other. But what is the use of talking?" she exclaimed. "You will not heed me. It is too late now." She turned and walked toward the door; but Edith caught her by the arm and stopped her. "Evadne! Do not go like this!" she entreated, with a sob in her voice.
Rayne's history before her marriage?" I said to Frank as I joined him in his walk. "Nothing to speak of only she was a widow." "Oh!" said I, feeling that a spot or two had suddenly appeared on the face of the sun. "That's nothing against her, is it?" "No, but I have no patience with second marriages." "Nor first ones, either," said Frank wickedly.
Oh! if men by selling their own souls could ride rampant for a term, for how short a term would I barter mine tonight! The sound of a deep bell came along the wind. One. 'Lie on! cried the usurer, 'with your iron tongue! Ring merrily for births that make expectants writhe, and marriages that are made in hell, and toll ruefully for the dead whose shoes are worn already!
This group of homes represents by no means an unstable segment of the community, since in most instances the couples had lived together in reasonable harmony up to the time of the man's death. But do the 96 represent forced marriages as ordinarily thought of by the social worker? The study just quoted has no facts bearing upon this point.
The microscope has proven that even though a man may seemingly be healthy and capable of sustaining the marriage relation, yet his efforts are valueless; for the spermatozoa, the life-giving element, are dead, due usually to an inflammation which accompanied an attack of this seemingly mild disease, gonorrhoea. This disease is responsible for many of the one child marriages.
"You mean either to rob your brother and sister of their money, or revenge yourself by stopping their marriages? By Heaven, Andrew " He broke off and plunged into meditation. Then his eyes began to smile, though his lips were now compressed. "Very well," he murmured. His son still felt a vague sense of apprehension. "Mind, you've got to stay abroad." "For ever?"
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