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Lamprey to depart, and then went on: "They do say marriages are made in Heaven, and 'tis not unlike to be true. 'Tis all one there whether we be high or low." This was a tribute to Omnipotence, acknowledging its independence of County Families. So august a family as the Earl's might wed as it would, without suffering disparagement.
Obey, if thou wilt, thine own carnal affections, summon this Julian Peveril to thy house, and let him wed thy daughter But mark the reception she will meet with from the proud old knight, whose spirit is now, even now, as little broken with his chains, as after the sword of the Saints had prevailed at Worcester. Thou wilt see thy daughter spurned from his feet like an outcast."
"That is to be seen," she said; "but I hope that you will find her. What shall you do if if she loves you not now?" "I would let her go free, surely." "Even if you found you loved her yet?" "Aye. I would not hold her bound were she unwilling." "But if it were the other way if she would wed you willingly, and you well, were unwilling?" "I would keep troth," said I; "she should not know it."
The terrible temptation which was assailing me will now be understood. I could so force Michael's hand that he must kill the King. I was in a position to bid him defiance and tighten my grasp on the crown not for its own sake, but because the King of Ruritania was to wed the Princess Flavia. What of Sapt and Fritz?
I suppose that people there live dull and simple lives enough, buy and sell, gossip and back-bite, wed and die; but for the pilgrim it seems an enchanted place, where there can be no care or sorrow, nothing hard, or unlovely, or unclean, but a sort of fairy-land, where men seem to be living the true and beautiful life of the soul, of which we are always in search, but which seems to be so strangely hidden away.
At a temple of Isis on the Nile where I ruled, there was a certain priest, a Greek by birth, vowed like myself to the service of the goddess and therefore to wed none but her, the goddess herself that is, in the spirit. He was named Kallikrates, a man of courage and of beauty, such an one as those Greeks carved in the statues of their god Apollo.
That is to me, said King Leodegrance, the best tidings that ever I heard, that so worthy a king of prowess and noblesse will wed my daughter. And as for an hundred good knights I have myself, but I faute fifty, for so many have been slain in my days. And in all haste the king let ordain for the marriage and the coronation in the most honourable wise that could be devised.
A look of blank amazement came over the faces of the defeated wooer and his friend, while a shout of gladness went up, that the Great Spirit had decided so well. The young couple were wed with rejoicings; the Mohawk trudged homeward, and, to the general satisfaction, Tashmu disappeared with him.
Amongst the same cattle they promiscuously live, upon the same ground they without distinction lie, till at a proper age the free-born are parted from the rest, and their bravery recommend them to notice. Slow and late do the young men come to the use of women, and thus very long preserve the vigour of youth. Neither are the virgins hastened to wed.
Cleves falls away, France and Spain are sundering. I will sue for peace with the Pope, and set up a chapel to Kat's memory. He breathed as if a weight had fallen from his chest, and suddenly laughed: 'But ye must wed me to keep me in the right way. He changed his tone again. 'Why, go to Anne, he said; 'she is such a fool she will not lie to thee; and, before God, she is no wife of mine.
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