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He had married her, believing that she had a right to claim happiness at his hands because he had taught her to love him. He had long since been obliged to own to himself that he had done this at the expense of his own peace, and he now questioned whether the experiment had succeeded better in her case than in his.
She remembers that Marcia is rather peculiar, always taking sudden fancies and then dropping them. This she never can give up, never. "What thought so perplexes that wise little face," asks her husband. "Oh, she must have loved him or she could not have married him," she says, still thinking of Marcia. "Does that follow, I wonder?"
Only say it, and I'll do anything to put an end to those tears, which but for me would never have been at all." "We are each married to another person," she said faintly; "and assistance from you would have an evil sound after after " "Well, there's no preventing slanderers from having their fill at any time; but you need not be afraid.
But...well, I'm not so sure that it is snobbish to prefer what you have always been accustomed to I mean if it is a higher standard. And after all I married him when he was only a clerk." "You are surprisingly little of a snob, all things considered; but you are a hopeless aristocrat." "What do you mean by that?"
The time of waking from this delusion the cruel and the rueful time was not far off. After some quiet months of married life, as the summer was ending, and the year was getting on toward the month of his birthday, Isaac found his wife altering toward him.
There was Annette Joyce, who married a Stackpole, and, to the disgust of her kin, clung to him through one debauch after another, until the world found out that Annette "couldn't have much sense of decency herself, or she wouldn't put up with such things."
Turning to Ethel, he said: "I suppose girls have a code of honor about their secrets. Is Dora Denning's 'extraordinary news' shut up in it?" "Oh, no, father. She is going to be married. That is all." "That is enough. Who is the man?" "Reverend Mr. Stanhope." "Nonsense!" "Positively." "I never heard anything more ridiculous. That saintly young priest!
I. Emperor and Nephew Tiberius, adopted son and actual stepson of Augustus, was summoned from Illyria by his mother Livia to the bedside of the dying emperor at Nola. Augustus left a granddaughter, Agrippina, who was married to Germanicus, the nephew of Tiberius; and a grandson, Agrippa Postumus, a youth of evil reputation.
If it were proper, she would do so; and then the question resolved itself into this; Could she be right if she married a man without loving him? To marry a man without esteeming him, without the possibility of loving him hereafter, she knew would be wrong. Mrs. Fenwick's letter was as follows; Vicarage, Tuesday. My brother-in-law left us yesterday, and has put us all into a twitter.
After studying at some length the family of the eldest son of Jonathan Edwards, it is worth while to study the family of one of the daughters. Mary, the fourth child born at Northampton , was married at the age of 16 to Timothy Dwight, born in Vermont and graduated from Yale in 1744.
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