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I should have thought marrying a fellow like me might have been trouble enough to make a saint of her." It was impossible to fix him to any line of thought, and Mary did not attempt it. To move the child in him was more than all argument. A pause followed. "I don't love God," he said. "I dare say not," replied Mary. "How should you, when you don't know him?" "Then what's to be done?
Lucky thing for that French fellow if he marries her. 'Marries her? echoed Kitty, her face growing pale. 'M. Vandeloup? 'Yes, replied Barty, pleased at having made a sensation. 'Her first husband has vanished, you know, and all the fellows are laying bets about Van marrying the grass widow. 'What nonsense! said Kitty, in an agitated voice. 'M. Vandeloup is her friend nothing more.
"Minette is altogether charming as she is. She is full of fun and life; she is clever and sparkling. There is no doubt that in her style she is very pretty. As to her grace it needs no saying. I think she is an honest good girl, but the idea of marrying her would frighten me. We see the surface and it is a very pleasant one, but it is only the surface.
She knew quite well whom he had in his mind in his allusions to marriage, and to a sober, solid husband; and when she was in her bedroom again, the possibility of her marrying Adam presented itself to her in a new light.
"Before we part, dear Andre," resumed she, "I must tell you of a fresh trouble which threatens us; there is a project for marrying me to M. de Breulh-Faverlay." "What, that very wealthy gentleman?" "Just so." "Well, if I oppose my father's wishes, an explanation must ensue, and this just now I do not desire.
"I told her, sir, as you bought that furnitur' on account of you being wishful to settle down, whereat she starts, an' looks at me wi' her eyes big, an' surprised-like. I told 'er, likewise, as you had told me on the quiet, or as you might say, con-fi-dential, that you bought that furnitur' to set up 'ouse-keeping on account o' you being on the p'int o' marrying a fine young lady up to Lonnon, "
And," he added, with a grave smile, "I haven't even discovered the mythical Hynds jewels. Now you see, Sophy, why I can't marry you." "I see why you think you can't." He flushed to the roots of his black hair. Hynds-Jelnik pride rose in arms. "I should cut rather a sorry figure marrying the owner of Hynds House, in the present circumstances," he said curtly.
Madam had been quick to see that if she did not take care Reuben Harmer would shortly aspire to the hand of her daughter, and she was not sure but that her husband would be weak enough to let the foolish girl please herself in the matter, and throw away what chance she had of marrying out of the city, and rising a step in life.
But Milly says she was sorely tried at times. Milly thought it would end up in her leaving the moat-house and marrying her old sweetheart, Mr. Musard, who's just returned from his foreign travels. Perhaps you've seen him." "Yes, I've seen him," said Caldew. "So he is her old sweetheart, is he?" "So folk used to say," returned Mrs. Lumbe.
Before Harden-Hickey married, the misunderstanding between his wife's father and himself began. Because he thought Harden-Hickey was marrying his daughter for her money, Flagler opposed the union. Consequently, Harden-Hickey married Miss Flagler without "settlements," and for the first few years supported her without aid from her father.
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