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Updated: June 11, 2025
I can marry but one, and am resolved it shall be to a lady of your nation. And, if her fortune is sufficient I think Miss would be the person who would be most suitable. I wish to ascertain what her means are before I lead her to Gretna Grin." Whether Alcides was as irresistible a conqueror as his namesake, or whether he was simply crazy, is a point which must be left to the reader's judgment.
‘Just come from Gretna Green, and already quarrelling!’ said the postilion. ‘We do not come from Gretna Green,’ said Belle. ‘Ah, I had forgot,’ said the postilion; ‘none but great people go to Gretna Green. Well, then, from church, and already quarrelling about family, just like two great people.’
'Just come from Gretna Green, and already quarrelling! said the postilion. 'We do not come from Gretna Green, said Belle. 'Ah, I had forgot, said the postilion; 'none but great people go to Gretna Green. Well, then, from church, and already quarrelling about family, just like two great people.
One day they had wandered farther than their wont, and they stood on the little bridge where the two kingdoms meet, about half a mile below Gretna. I know not what soft persuasion he employed, but she accompanied him up the hill which leadeth through the village of Springfield, and they went towards the far-famed Green together.
The love-match people are the most notorious of all for quarrelling afterwards; and a girl who runs away with Jack to Gretna Green, constantly runs away with Tom to Switzerland afterwards. The great point in marriage is for people to agree to be useful to one another. The lady brings the means, and the gentleman avails himself of them.
"I began to fear that you had given me the slip altogether, and that I should hear of you next at Gretna Green, or find that you had had a licence in your pocket all the time, and had been laughing in your sleeve while I was bestowing my sage advice on you." "No, indeed," answered Harry, who did not like the general's joke. "To confess the truth, I have been making my will.
Physiognomy is a subtle science, and the exceptions to its rules are often of a sensational character. In the same way Kerry looked for evasion, and, where possible, flight, on the part of one possessing a guilty conscience. Mollie Gretna was a phenomenal exception to a rule otherwise sound.
I don't know how many years I've thrown off in two days' time, since this child princess commanded me to play with her." James still thought my bride-game had been played too long, and she switched the conversation to the real romances of Gretna Green so breathlessly thrilling, some of them, that I was ashamed to hark back to the subject of ourselves.
Sir Bindon Blood ordered General Meiklejohn to assemble this force before dark near the centre of the camp at a grove of trees called "Gretna Green," to bivouac there for the night, and to be ready to start with the first light of morning. During the afternoon the enemy, encouraged by their success with the cavalry in the morning, advanced boldly to the pickets and the firing was continuous.
"Just come from Gretna Green, and already quarrelling," said the postillion. "We do not come from Gretna Green," said Belle. "Ah, I had forgot," said the postillion, "none but great people go to Gretna Green. Well, then, from church, and already quarrelling about family, just like two great people."
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