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He had always intended to marry somebody and domesticity with Persis promised at least commonplace comfort, something Justin was the last man on earth to despise. With the children disposed of, Joel sent adrift and Persis' money wisely handled, there was no reason why they should not get on better than the majority of married people.
Because a woman, in her ignorance, has married a man who is incapable of producing healthy offspring, due to his having "sown his wild oats," should not be a reason why she should be condemned to forego the pleasures of motherhood. Because a man has married a woman who is sterile or who selfishly refuses to bear children should not be a reason why he should be denied an heir.
The wealth of art and music, the luxury of flowers and colour, the stretches of wild country both in Scotland and high Leicestershire, which had made up my life till I married, had not qualified me to understand children reared in different circumstances.
"I married him in the dress and under the name of a simple peasant woman, not knowing as he did that such a ceremony was utterly null and void. "Was I happy? I think he loved me then a little." A soft, sad look overspread the sweet old face; she gazed away across the lake in silence for a few moments.
The young married woman who comes to New York, or any other large city, often passes years of loneliness before she has made her acquaintances.
Pen, ink, and paper! she cried joyously. 'The note shall go round at once. 'You're a magnificent sort of person, said Jessica. 'Some day, no doubt, you'll keep a carriage and pair of your own. 'Shan't I, just! And drive you down to Burlington House, for your exams. By-the-bye, does a female Bachelor of Arts lose her degree if she gets married? Nancy was sprightlier than of late.
Henry the Eighth was so impatient that he could not wait for a divorce from Catharine before he married Anne Boleyn. The only way to make the latter marriage legal, therefore, was to consider the former one null and void from the beginning, and if the former one was not thus null and void, the latter must be so.
Sir George Carteret was Lieutenant-Governor of the island, under my Lord St. Albans: a man formerly bred a sea-boy, and born in that island, the brother's son of Sir Philip Carteret, whose younger daughter he afterwards married.
Mr Dudley is charming, and I am sure you are fond of him, but you can't be married while your father lives, and and one never knows what may happen. Suppose changes came " Vere stopped short in the middle of her sentence, and, by a curious impulse, Rachel turned suddenly and looked at me. Our eyes met, and the expression in hers the piteous, shrinking look made me rush hotly into the breach.
At length they were married, a marriage based on a false idea of duty on each side. But no idea of duty, however strong or however false, could blind the eyes of this married pair to the terrible fact that not only love but mental sympathy was wanting.
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