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This appellation, indeed, so injurious to the majesty, cannot without indulgence be applied to the manners, of these Oriental queens. A concubine, in the strict sense of the civilians, was a woman of servile or plebeian extraction, the sole and faithful companion of a Roman citizen, who continued in a state of celibacy.
Noureddin rose and kissed the hand of his father, who said to him, 'If I knew that thou wouldst deal fairly by Enis el Jelis, I would give her to thee. 'O my father, replied Noureddin, 'how should I not deal fairly by her? Quoth the Vizier, 'O my son, I charge thee not to take another wife nor concubine to share with her nor sell her. 'O my father, answered Noureddin, 'I swear to thee that I will do none of these things. Then he went in to the damsel and abode with her a whole year, whilst God caused the King to forget the affair.
At the time of the coup d'etat, and the imprisonment of the Emperor, this first concubine was degraded and imprisoned on the ground of having been the means of introducing Kang Yu-wei to the notice of the Emperor, and thus interfering in state affairs.
Goes to Farming. Moves to Allen's Creek. Builds Mills at Rochester. Drowns a Dutchman. Marries a white Wife. Kills an old Man. Gets a Concubine. Moves to Mt. Morris. Marries a third Wife and gets another Concubine. Receives a tract of Land. Sends his Children to other States, &c. Disposes of his Land. Moves to Grand River, where he dies. His Cruelties.
A man who cohabited with a woman as his concubine, even though she was of servile condition or questionable character, could not dismiss her and marry another saving for adultery. Slaves were now allowed to contract marriages and masters were not permitted to dissolve them.
"What!" said Sir Kenneth, "darest thou think, Moslem, that Richard would give his kinswoman a high-born and virtuous princess to be, at best, the foremost concubine in the haram of a misbeliever? Know, Hakim, the meanest free Christian noble would scorn, on his child's behalf, such splendid ignominy." "Thou errest," said the Hakim.
"You seem to forget the murder of your concubine Isanie, and of your fourth wife Wisigarde, whom you married when two previous ones were still alive, and you then took a fifth wife, Godegisele " "And did you not give me absolution for all those sins? By the faith of the Terrible Eagle, my glorious ancestor!
"We acknowledge the weight of your Lordship's objections," they said, "and do but venture to hint remotely that the times are hard, and that the Holy Father is grievously in want of money." "I have also taken a wife," said Gaddo. "A wife!" exclaimed they with one consent. "If it had been a concubine! Let us return instantly." They gathered up their garments and spat upon the ground.
Three women two empresses and a concubine controlled the forces of the three great nations, Austria, Russia, and France; and they all hated him: Elizabeth of Russia, by reason of a distrust fomented by secret intrigue and turned into gall by the biting tongue of Frederic himself, who had jibed at her amours, compared her to Messalina, and called her "infâme catin du Nord;" Maria Theresa of Austria, because she saw in him a rebellious vassal of the Holy Roman Empire, and, above all, because he had robbed her of Silesia; Madame de Pompadour, because when she sent him a message of compliment, he answered, "Je ne la connais pas," forbade his ambassador to visit her, and in his mocking wit spared neither her nor her royal lover.
Where is there another woman who has been so shamelessly robbed of her children? For is not my daughter the captive and concubine of an insane tuft-hunter? Has not my son been taken from me through the baseness that has been practised against his sister, and the lamentable spectacle afforded him by my own powerlessness? Where, I ask high Heaven, is there another woman so cursed as I have been?”
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