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Ten months, or eleven, some say, following the proclamation of the marriage-tie, a son was born to Countess Fanny, close by the castle of Chillon-on-the-lake, and he had the name of Chillon Switzer John Kirby given to him to celebrate the fact. Two years later the girl was born, and for the reason of her first seeing the light in that Austrian province, she was christened Carinthia Jane.
Our Judges look suspiciously on long delayed actions. And there are, too, women who regard the marriage-tie as indissoluble. She has had to combat that scruple. 'Believer in the renewing of the engagement overhead! well. But put a by-word to Mother Nature about the state of sin. Where, do you imagine, she would lay it? You'll say, that Nature and Law never agreed. They ought.
The baptism of the New Jordan soon initiates its female neophytes into the mysteries of womanhood absolutely compelling them to the marriage-tie forcing them to a wedlock loveless and unholy. Suffering under such apprehensions, I scarcely needed the additional stimulus of jealousy to urge me onward; and yet, strange as it may appear, the finding of the bouquet had produced this effect.
Miss Barton has conscientious scruples about the marriage-tie, which in theory I share with her; she was unwilling to enter into any relations with me except in terms of perfect freedom." "I see," the old man went on with provoking calmness. "She preferred, in fact, to be, not your wife, but your mistress." Alan rose indignantly.
And so they were married; yes, these two who had so generously repudiated the marriage-tie were married March Twenty-ninth, Seventeen Hundred Ninety-seven, at Old Saint Pancras Church, for they had come to the sane conclusion that to affront society was not wise. On August Thirtieth, in the year Seventeen Hundred Ninety-seven, was born to them a daughter.
Shelley was a married man, and although it was true he did not live on good terms with his wife, yet she was his lawful wife, and marriage was a sacred obligation: of course, pure philosophy or poetic justice took a different view, but in society the marriage-tie must not be held lightly. In short, Shelley was married and that was all there was about it.
'It was posted before my swim: posted yesterday. 'You have fully and clearly thought it out to a determination? 'Bit by bit I might say, blow by blow. 'It is no small matter to break a marriage-tie. 'I have conversed with your mother. 'Yes, she! and the woman happiest in marriage! 'I know. It was hatred of injustice, noble sympathy. And she took me for one of the blest among wives.
She felt that the marriage-tie would confirm her true feelings as a wife, and that it was hardly fair to ask him to be away from his large and exacting business so much, especially when he had appeared so generous in the time he had given her, which must have involved to him serious loss and inconvenience.
Themison, whom their host had pricked to anticipate high entertainment from him. He did nothing to bridge the crevasse and warm the glacier air at table when the doctor, anecdotal intentionally to draw him out, related a decorous but pungent story of one fair member of a sweet new sisterhood in agitation against the fixed establishment of our chain-mail marriage-tie.
No! it turns to a fit of laughter, a little nervous perhaps, but unexpected and disconcerting dry and clear, pealing through the silence and warmth of the narrow paths, like a cascade of little mock pearls. Ah, there indeed is a marriage-tie which will be broken without much pain!
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