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No, there was nothing before him now but to live out his loveless life alone, to sink into a peevish, selfish old bachelor, and to make a will in Maurice's favour, and get himself out of the world that wanted him not with as much expedition as might be. And he loved Vera still. She was still to him the most pure and perfect of women good as she was beautiful.
Quarmby has betrayed an unoffending couple into involuntary matrimony, an act of which his Bishop can scarcely fail to take official notice; Captain Audaine and the Marchioness are entrapped into a loveless marriage, than which there mayn't be a greater misery in life; and my own future, I needn't add, is irrevocably blighted by the loss of my respected Dorothy, without whom continued animation must necessarily be a hideous and hollow mockery.
Religious, too, in spite of the errors of Rome, one must confess it. A pity she ever left us, a great pity but of course her loss as well as ours. We require such women now, though; but somehow we do not keep them. And I cannot think why." "Too cold," Angelica's thoughts ran on. "Hollow, shallow, inconsistent loveless.
In the Welsh poem called 'Y Gododin' the poet Aneirin is represented as expressing his gratitude at being rescued by the son of Llywarch Hen from 'the cruel prison of the earth, from the abode of death, from the loveless land. The salient features, therefore, of the Celtic conceptions of the other-world are their consonance with the suggestions made by Celtic scenery to the Celtic imagination, the vagueness and variability of these conceptions in different minds and in different moods, the absence of any ethical considerations beyond the incentive given to bravery by the thought of immortality, and the remarkable development of a sense of possible inter-relations between the two worlds, whether pacific or hostile.
How had it overleaped content and ease of mind! Into what a nest of stings and thorns his loveless marriage had plunged him! And now but the black shadow remained; he walked in the darkness of unending isolation. So he should continue to walk straight to the door of death. He scarcely heard the organ or the voice of the priest.
Something must be done, Angela told herself, and quickly, to set her right with her sister, and in her own esteem. She had to choose between a loveless marriage and the Convent. By accepting one or the other she must prove that she was not the slave of a dishonourable love. Marriage or the Convent? It had been easy, contemplating the step from a distance, to choose the Convent.
And, love being discarded, there is no reason why he should not still get the Ring, by fair or foul means, and reign loveless indeed, but in no fear of Fafner or the Nibelung, black Alberich. As a musical structure the Second Act divides more easily and clearly than the first into sections: the sections, indeed, are boldly defined.
Others had done the deed, and it did not strike him that he was responsible for the crime committed in his service; but her loveless heart, without a care for him her bird-sharp face, looking out like a well-made mask from her abundant hair and her red, pinched lips, were very present to him.
In a moment he recognized that a crisis was coming; that she was utterly irresponsible, utterly beyond reasoning. Like a spectre her loveless childhood had risen and confronted her; and now that there was no longer even hope, she had turned desperately upon herself with the blank despair of a wounded animal. End it all! that was her one impulse.
Save me from the irrevocable wickedness of a loveless marriage. Forgive me, and let me go. No, this she could not bring herself to say. She did not like Mr. Smithson, but she valued the position he was able to give her.
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