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Updated: June 11, 2025
The Earl at the moment held Galloway and Annandale, two of his brothers were Earls of Moray and Ormond; in October 1448, Ormond had distinguished himself by defeating and taking Percy, urging a raid into Scotland, at a bloody battle on the Water of Sark, near Gretna.
And for the same good reason, Charley; trust me, for the same good reason, and no other upon earth!" Emmeline was Angela's cousin. Lived with her. Had been brought up with her. Was her father's ward. Had property. "Emmeline is in the chaise, my dear Edwin!" said I, embracing him with the greatest affection. "My good fellow!" said he, "do you suppose I should be going to Gretna Green without her?"
But neither Maria Heywood or Ronayne stood much on this punctilio. Provided the ceremony was legal, and according to the customs of the country, it mattered little who married them the governor of a district the commandant of a garrison, or a Gretna Green blacksmith had they felt at all disposed to avail themselves of the services of the latter.
I didn't answer, because no answer was needed, and because we were both gazing hard at a small, whitewashed, double house made into one by an archway joining the two parts together. Coming from Gretna Green it was on our left in the midst of a gray and white village which would have looked commonplace if it had not been framed by an immense sky.
What does that Infant do for Infant you may call him, and be within the mark but cut away from that old lady's with his Norah, on a expedition to go to Gretna Green and be married! The Guard says to our Governor, "I don't quite make out these little passengers, but the young gentleman's words was, that they was to be brought here."
But really I don't think I can be of the least tiny bit of use." Their glances met, and Margaret read hostility in the shallow eyes. Mollie, who had been wavering, now for some reason had become confirmed in her original determination to remain silent. Margaret stood up. "It is no good, then," she said. "We must hope that Rita will be traced by the police. Good-bye, Miss Gretna.
I think I see the urn smoking before me now, and papa wheeling the sopha round, that I might sit between them at the table. Mamma called me Little Run-away, and said it was very well it was only papa. I told her how we frightened the old gardener, and opened my eyes to shew her how he stared, and how my papa made the milliner believe we were going to Gretna Green.
"GRETNA GREEN, Monday Evening. "The mystery is at length solved.
As for these two fair sisters in Watteau style of blue and pink, and green and pink taffetas, lace, and pearls, and roses surely the daintiest, most aristocratic shepherdesses ever beheld one of them would have lost her graceful equanimity, reddened with affront, and tingled to the finger-tips with angry unbelief if she had been warned beforehand that she would be amongst the last of the high-born, high-bred brides who would forfeit her birthright and her presence at a Queen's Court by agreeing to be married at the hands of a blacksmith instead of a bishop, before the rude hymeneal altar at Gretna.
In her dim, cushioned corner Mollie Gretna lay back against the wall, her face pale and her weak mouth foolishly agape. Cyrus Kilfane was indistinguishable from the pile of rugs amid which he sprawled by the table, and of Sir Lucien Pyne nothing was to be seen but the outstretched legs and feet which projected grotesquely from a recess.
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