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She has been an excellent daughter, and will make an excellent wife. He who weds her will obtain a greater treasure than he expects." "Not than he expects," said Leonard. "Ay, than he expects," reiterated the piper. "You will one day find out that I speak the truth." Leonard looked at Nizza, who was blushing deeply at her father's remark. She understood him.
Said one youth: "Who knows but what if he goes on a voyage he will be like Odysseus, and never return. Then will we have all his riches to divide among ourselves, and his house will belong to the man who weds Penelope." Telemachus shook off the jeering crowd, and went down to the vaulted chamber where his father's treasures were kept.
The same tragedy is alluded to in the following couplet and note: What train of curses that base brood pursues, When the young nephew weds old uncle's spouse. The note on the word "uncle" explains it as meaning "Rutherfoord, who should have married the Lady Baldoon, was Baldoon's uncle."
The Double-Marriage drifting furiously this long while, in such a sea as never was; and breakers now Close a-lee, have the desperate crew fallen to staving-in the liquor-casks, and quarrelling with one another? Evident one thing is, her Majesty cannot be considered a perfectly wise Mother! We shall see what her behavior is, when Wilhelmina actually weds this respectable young Prince.
But there was a destiny for Blanche, foreshadowed for me then, but not seen." "It is the quality of the man," I said, "that determines the quality of the marriage. She who weds best, weds the truest man. The rank and wealth are of the last consideration. To make them first, is the blindest folly of the blindest." "Ah, if this were but rightly understood" said Mrs.
The bank-notes folded in this letter make up four hundred pounds and this money you can spend as you like on your clothes for the bridal, or on anything you fancy I place no restriction on you as to its use. When a maid weds there are many pretties she needs to buy, and the prettier they are for you the better shall I be pleased.
As I look across the bay, there is seen resting over all the hills, and even upon every distant sail, an enchanted veil of palest blue, that seems woven out of the very souls of happy days, a bridal veil, with which the sunshine weds this soft landscape in summer.
That morning is Clotilde till my eyes turn over! She is all young heaven and the mountains for me! She's the filmy light above the mountains that weds white snow and sky. By the way, I dreamt last night she was half a woman, half a tree, and her hair was like a dead yewbough, which is as you know of a brown burnt-out colour, suitable to the popular conception of widows.
She has discovered that treasure is concealed in a statue of the White Lady, and with this she empowers George to buy back his ancestral lands and castle. Gaveston is outbidden at the sale, and George weds Anna. Boieldieu's music has much melodic beauty, though its tenderness is apt to degenerate into sentimentality.
"All these charges are false and calumnious!" cried Anne Boleyn. "Let the king inquire and judge for himself," rejoined Catherine; "and if he weds you, let him look well to you, or you will make him a scoff to all honourable men.
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