The Amazing Marriage, Volume 2B. Tauchnitz, 1897 - 280 pages |
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Page 42 - ... of enormous wealth as well. Wholly Cambrian Fleetwood was not. But he had to the full the Cambrian's reverential esteem for high qualities. His good-bye with Henrietta, and estimate of her, left a dusky mental void requiring an orb of some sort for contemplation ; and an idea of the totally contrary Carinthia, the woman he had avowedly wedded, usurped her place. Qualities were admitted. She was thrust away because she had offended : still more because he had offended. She bore the blame for forcing...
Page 41 - Other races forfeit infancy, forfeit youth and manhood with their progression to the wisdom age may bestow. These have each stage always alive, quick at a word, a scent, a sound, to conjure up scenes, in spirit and in flame. Historically, they still march with Cadwallader, with Llewellyn, with Glendower; sing with Aneurin, Taliesin, old Llywarch: individually, they are in the heart of the injury done them thirty years back, or thrilling to the glorious deed which strikes an empty buckler for most...
Page 252 - ... an exposure of character! Character must ever be a mystery, only to be explained in some degree by conduct; and that is very dependent upon accident...
Page 74 - You hate Nature unless you have it served on a dish by your own cook. That 's the way to the madhouse or the monastery. There we expiate the sin of sins. A man finds the woman of all women fitted to stick him in the soil, and trim and point him to grow, and she 's an animal for her pains ! The secret of your malady is, you 've not yet, though you 're on...
Page 115 - the commonest insanity, and the deadliest," and men are "planted in the bog of their unclean animal condition until they do proper homage to the animal Nature makes the woman be." Oh, pish, sir! — as Meeson Corby has the habit of exclaiming when Abrane's "fiddler" argues him into a corner. The fellow can fiddle fine things and occasionally clear sense: — "Men hating Nature are insane. Women and Nature are close. If it is rather general to hate Nature and maltreat women, we begin to see why the...
Page 199 - With those words she barred the gates on him ; at the same time she bestowed the frank look of an amiable face brilliant in the lively red of her exercise, in its bent-bow curve along the forehead, out of the line of beauty, touching, as her voice was, to make an undertone of anguish swell an ecstasy. So he felt it, for his mood was now the lover's. A torture smote him, to find himself transported by that voice at his ear to the scene of the young bride in thirty-acre meadow. ' I propose to call...
Page 41 - Now, to the Cymry and to the pure Kelt, the past is at their elbows, continually. The past of their lives has lost neither face nor voice behind the shroud; nor are the passions of the flesh, nor is the animate soul, wanting to it. Other races forfeit infancy, forfeit youth and manhood with their progression to the wisdom age may bestow. These have each stage always alive, quick at a word, a scent, a sound, to conjure up scenes in spirit and in flame. Historically, they still march with Cadwallader,...
Page 97 - ... worldly honors are not ; deeds only are the title. Fleetwood consented to tell himself that he had not yet performed the deeds. Therefore, for him to be dominated was to be obscured, eclipsed. A man may outrun us : it is the fortune of •war. Eclipsed behind the skirts of a woman waving her upraised hands...
Page 23 - ... object, being the next thought about it. He knew his Fleetwood so far. His letter concluded: "I am in a small Surrey village, over a baker's shop, rent eight shillings per week, a dame's infant school opposite my window, miles of firwood, heath, and bracken openings, for the winged or the nested fancies. Love Nature, she makes you a lord of her boundless, off any ten square feet of common earth.
Page 198 - It binds me." "Obey, you said." "Obey it. I do." "You consider it holy?" "My father and my mother spoke to me of the marriage-tie. I read the service before I stood at the altar. It is holy. It is dreadful. I will be true to it." "To your husband?" "To his name, to his honour." "To the vow to live with him?" "My husband broke that for me.