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Marriages were then and there matters of traffic and calculation; and it would have appeared as absurd in the eyes of the guardian to make a mutual attachment an essential element in a contract of marriage, as it would have been to draw up his bonds and receipts in the language of chivalrous romance.
The refusal of the Compact to permit Methodist ministers to perform the marriage ceremony was not soon forgotten. There were scores of settlements where no clergyman of the Established Church of England or of Scotland resided, and marriages here had been of necessity performed by other ministers.
For, according as our conditions to one another are or are not in our marriages, "They locally contain or heaven or hell; There is no third place in them." What untold good, then, may all our young women not get out of the loving study of Mercy's sweet, steadfast, noble character! And what untold misery may they not escape!
Does Shakespeare's ideal of love and constancy, as revealed in 'The Winter's Tale, imply that second marriages are offences against the first. Has the objection Paulina makes to his re-marriage such a cause or is it a necessity of the plot?
She liked him, without a doubt; and without a doubt she liked him well enough to let him hold her hand, well enough to be not repelled by the nearness of him. She shook her head. "No, it is impossible. You would lose your bet." For the first time a dark suspicion crossed Daylight's mind a clew that explained everything. "Say, you ain't been let in for some one of these secret marriages have you?"
He laughed rather tunelessly at his own bitter jest, and after a brief silence, recovered his accustomed manner. "So so; such things must be, and I, though a bachelor myself, have no right to forbid marriages. Allow me to congratulate you. Of course you have answered this letter? My brother knows his happiness?"
"Such marriages are reasonable, and far likelier to be agreeable than when fancy is the sole motive certainly far more agreeable than an ill-considered yielding to abstract emotion with nothing concrete in view. So, you see, I could not marry you even if I " her voice was inclined to tremble, but she controlled it. Would she never learn her rôle? "even if I loved you "
Notwithstanding the Spanish marriages, which he opposed so long as opposition was possible, he knew that so long as a statesman remained in the kingdom, or a bone for one existed, the international policy of Henry, of Sully, and of Jeannin could not be wholly abandoned.
Also he read with care all announcements of engagements and marriages in The Times, and the deaths, too, for the matter of that, but happily quite without result. Indeed in view of her declaration he ought to have been, and, in fact, was, ashamed of his research; but then, who could be quite sure of anything in this world?
Neither master nor slave belongs to a family, but only to a class. If you would guard against these abuses, and secure happy marriages, you must stifle your prejudices, forget human institutions, and consult nature.
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