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They had figured in a flamboyant elopement which had thrilled fashionable London some six months earlier. "Now you see how it is you understand, don't you?" Mrs. Cope continued on a note of appeal. "I knew you would that's the reason I came to you. I suppose he felt the same thing about your husband; he's not spoken to another soul in the place." Her face grew anxious again.
Elopements are always in bad taste. But the elopement is the least important part of it. The difference in age is the serious thing. I got it out of him just what it is almost twenty years. She might be his mother! he admitted that he had had to lie about himself to get the license.
He laughed; the Imp was the one person whose presence he was ready to endure. Indeed there would perhaps be a piquancy in that. "All right. An elopement made respectable by Mina!" He had a touch of scorn even for mitigated respectability. "Shall we call her and tell her now?" "Well, are you tired of this interview?"
His abandonment of his first wife, his elopement with Mary Godwin, are instances of this; what could be more amazing than his deliberate invitation to his first wife, after his flight with Mary, that she should come and join the party in a friendly way?
An infernal elopement, then. It's clear the girl's mad-head's cracked as a cocoa-nut bowled by a monkey, brains nowhere. Harry, you're not a greenhorn; you don't suspect you're called down there to stop it, do you? You jump plump into a furious lot of the girl's relatives; you might as well take a header into a leech-pond. Come! you're a man; think for yourself.
It is a cheap mode, after all, of providing for a reprobate; and as he will have the good fortune to enter the army at so early an age, by the time he is thirty, he may be a colonel on full pay. Seriously, this is the best thing you can do with him, unless you have a living in your family." The old gentleman was much discomposed by these letters, and by his son's previous elopement.
We were to be married very quietly the following day. I had no wish to make the wedding the social function which my position as one of the three partners in the Little Clean-Up might have justified; and Polly agreed with me in this. It was not until after I had left the house that I remembered that the forced financing of Agatha Geddis's elopement had practically drained my bank account.
Come, let me see if these wrist-bands are large enough." Miss Arabella felt the gentle rebuke, and sighed. It was really too bad, because they were both so good-looking, and so well suited, and so young. And the faded little lilac lady thought regretfully of her lost youth. The second letter allayed any lingering fears Elsie had felt regarding the elopement. According to Dr.
"That is an elopement," said Serge; gayly, "quite in the style of the regency!" "Yes, my dear Prince, that's how we bankers do it," said Cayrol, laughing. Then changing his tone: "See, I vibrate, I am palpitating. I am hot and cold by turns. Just fancy, I have never loved before; my heart is whole, and I love to distraction!" Serge instinctively glanced at Jeanne.
Fitzroy Bagley, he would have no alternative but to retire gracefully under fire and relinquish all idea of a marriage alliance with the house of Ryder. The critical moment had arrived. To-morrow, Wednesday, was the day fixed for the elopement. The secretary's little game had gone far enough. The time had come for action.
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