subsist-without

Updated: July 5, 2026

'Good, now, Miss Mac-Ivor, said a young lady of quality, 'do you mean to cheat us out of our prerogative? will you persuade us love cannot subsist-without hope, or that the lover must become fickle if the lady is cruel? Oh, fie! I did not expect such an unsentimental conclusion.

Sir Walter Scott - Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since