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Long before religion and Society heard of Doubt, girls were all for midnight coaches and Gretna Green. It's a sort of home-leaving instinct." He followed up a line of thought.
F. gave them to understand that they were going to Gretna Green, something was dropped by Denny expressing his belief that W. never intended to go there, or to marry Lydia at all, which was repeated to Colonel F., who, instantly taking the alarm, set off from B. intending to trace their route.
The attendant went to inspect the visitors' book, but Mollie Gretna was at the desk before him, and: "Oh, Bill!" she cried to her annoyed cavalier, "it's Inspector Kerry who is in charge of poor Lucy's murder! Oh, Bill! this is lovely! Something is going to happen! Do come down!"
"Will she never come back?" asked Clarinda. "Oh, no!" said Jane decidedly. "Bony never brings people back." "Not never no more?" sobbed Clarinda, for she was weak-minded, and could not bear to think that Bony never, never let naughty people go home again. Next day Jane had heard more. "He has taken her to a Green?" "A Goose Green?" asked Clarinda. "No. A Gretna Green.
Melrose Abbey Abbotsford Dryburgh Abbey The Grave of Sir Walter Scott Hawick Gretna Green Visit to the Lakes. YORK, March 26, 1851. I closed my last letter in the ancient town of Melrose, on the banks of the Tweed, and within a stone's throw of the celebrated ruins from which the town derives its name.
And this he delivered with such appalling voice and gesture as to frighten to a standstill a chaise on the English side of the stream, containing a young gentleman in a scarlet coat and a laced hat, and a young lady who sobbed as we passed them. They were, no doubt, running to Gretna Green to be married. Captain Paul, as I have said, was a man of moods, and strangely affected by ridicule.
Baggs accompanied us, and again, when, on nearing Scotland, he found that we did not take the road to Gretna Green.
We fell to talking about Madame la Duchesse d'Ivry as we trotted on; and then of English manners by way of contrast, of intrigues, elopements, Gretna Grin, etc., etc. "You are a droll nation!" says Florac. "To make love well, you must absolutely have a chaise-de-poste, and a scandal afterwards.
"Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea." Pyne's big car was at the stage-door on the fateful Saturday night, for Rita had brought her dressing-case to the theatre, and having called for Kilfane and Mollie Gretna they were to proceed direct to Limehouse.
Another favorite device of the white slaver for landing victims is the runaway marriage trick. The alleged summer resorts and excursion centers which are so widely advertised as Gretna Greens and as places where the usual legal and official formalities preliminary to respectable marriage are reduced to the minimum are star recruiting stations for the white slave traffic.
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