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Updated: May 1, 2025
Rumour said he had been on the point of affiancing another to one of the men now in prison. I decided that Cetinje was no place for me, and that I would carry out my long deferred plan of a tour in the Albanian mountains. Sofia Petrovna pressed upon me an introduction to M. Lobatcheff, the Russian Vice-Consul at Scutari, and thither I went, leaving Cetinje to stew in its own juice.
Petersburg and London that we have heard them quite across the sea. The queen's son has married the daughter of the Russian emperor. We are glad of it. It is always well to have people marry who are on the same level. The famous affiancing in New York of a coachman with the daughter of the millionaire who employed him did not turn out well. It was bad for her, but worse for the coachman.
I would live as the Sibyls that gave good counsel and lived in rocky cells in sackcloth. So would I fainer. But if you will have me, upon your oaths to me of this our affiancing, I beseech you to give me no jewels, neither the revenue of provinces for my dower. But grant it to me that in after ages men may conceive of me as of such a noble woman of Rome.
"That I feel; yet it has to be spoken of" "Sometimes? Why? I can't conceive the occasion. You know, to me, Clara, plighted faith, the affiancing of two lovers, is a piece of religion. I rank it as holy as marriage; nay, to me it is holier; I really cannot tell you how; I can only appeal to you in your bosom to understand me. We read of divorces with comparative indifference.
The dragon that guards hidden treasure made sport for them, the naiads danced, and cherubim fluttered about singing very sweetly and asking droll conundrums. Then they feasted, with unearthly servitors to attend them, and did all else appropriate to an affiancing of deities.
Medlicott clasped his hands convulsively but he did not reply so the Russian went on: "Surely, you must see that a woman should be free to marry that is, to give herself and her power to become a mother where she loves not to be forced to bestow these sacred gifts when her spirit is unwilling just because she has made the initial mistake of affiancing herself to a man, often through others' influence, who she discovers afterward is distasteful to her.
On the following day the affiancing, of which this entertainment had been the prelude, took place with great solemnity. The most costly presents were exchanged, not only by the betrothed children, but also by their royal and noble relatives.
'Great kings and lords upon their affiancing day have ever had the habit of granting their brides a boon or twain as the conferring of the revenues of a province, or the pardoning of criminals. 'Why, an thou come not to me to pardon Privy Seal he began. 'Sir, she cut in on his words, 'I crave no pardon for Privy Seal; but let me speak my mind. He said tenderly: 'Art in the mood to talk!
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