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It is a special avowal of the wife's relations to her husband, and its natural as well as moral end is the establishment of the family on the basis of a healthy progeny. The wife-to-be, like her prospective husband, will be well advised to ask for a medical health certificate.

He wanted the respect and admiration of this young woman his son's wife-to-be. "Don't weave any golden halo for me," he added, dryly. "After Denny packed up and hiked it came back rather hard that I hadn't paid much attention to his childhood. It was a kind of penance." "But you liked it!" "Maybe I only got used to it. Say, Denny, was there a wireless man in the crew?" "No.

The life of a lovely woman was to be intrusted to me, to make or to mar according as I did my duty. I passed many hours, as the train rolled on, mile after mile, mentally reviewing the past, looking at the present, and planning for the future. My year of correspondence with my wife-to-be had increased the strength of my affection, and to its growth there seemed no end.

Yet the whole episode amused him hugely. He smiled as he thought of his wife-to-be the future Mrs. John Covington running like a frightened deer from the first situation which took her by surprise! It was not as he had pictured it, but youth is a malady from which one's convalescence is ever speedy, and he could enjoy it while it lasted.

And she has the womanliness to be guided by natural instincts in the selection of her mate." She was trembling with passion. She tugged the cord. "You will descend this instant!" she told him fiercely. "That you should dare to make a comparison between me and that..." "And my wife-to-be," he interrupted, before she could speak the infamous word.

"I am sure we shall like each other. We must he is all I have, you know." Elizabeth, who had felt herself on trial, was near tears, but her lover saved her from that embarrassment when, feeling that the Hunter approval was accorded, he stepped forward and put his arms about the two, kissing first one and then the other. "My mother and my wife-to-be must certainly like each other," he said.

And that was where it took them. Once the battle was joined, a fierce desire for haste impelled all of these people. Kedzie dreaded every hour's delay as a new risk of losing Strathdene, who was showing an increasing rage at having the name of his wife-to-be bandied about in the press, with her portraits in formal pose or snapped by batteries of reporters.

I can seat myself once more in the fragile swing of my dreams and let my imagination keep me swinging. Ecco, Signora! "My dear, faithful wife-to-be, did I not owe you this faithful picture of your future home life in Paris?

In the little hall he had drawn her to him and kissed her, this time not on the lips, but on the forehead and on each of her white eyelids. "Little wife-to-be!" he had said, and was rather ashamed of his own emotion. From across the Street, as he got into his car, he had waved his hand to her.

The young man paused in his dilemma and looked for an instant at the sweet face of the girl beside him. But he could not let his friend see that he did not know the name of his wife-to-be, and with quick thought he answered, "Mary!"