 So faithful that she can see all his little faults — though she takes care no one else shall see them — yet would as soon think of loving him the less for these, as of ceasing to look up to heaven because there are a few clouds in the sky. So true...  Agatha's Husband: A Novel - Page 102by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik - 1853Full view - About this book
 | 1867 - 974 pages
...render it myself. Let me read you a passage that my daughter and I were struck with last night : — ' I would have every woman marry, not merely liking...away. Thus she will marry neither from liking, esteem, nor gratitude for his love, but from the fulness of her own. If they never marry, as sometimes happens,... | |
 | Emma Jane Worboise - 1872 - 444 pages
...render it myself. Let me read you a passage that my daughter and I were struck with last night : — ' I would have every woman marry, not merely liking...away. Thus she will marry neither from liking, esteem, nor gratitude for his love, but from the fulness of her own. If they never marry, as sometimes happens,... | |
 | Lady Isabel Burton - 1897 - 828 pages
...true, so fond, that she needs neither to burthen him with her love nor vex him with her constancy, since both are self-existent, and entirely independent...of anything he gives or takes away. Thus she will not marry him for liking, esteem, gratitude for his love, but from the fulness of her own love. If... | |
 | Lady Isabel Burton - 1897 - 830 pages
...true, so fond, that she needs neither to burthen him with her love nor vex him with her constancy, since both are self-existent, and entirely independent...of anything he gives or takes away. Thus she will not marry him for liking, esteem, gratitude for his love, but from the fulness of her own love. If... | |
 | Lady Isabel Burton - 1898 - 828 pages
...true, so fond, that she needs neither to burthen him with her love nor vex him with her constancy, since both are self-existent, and entirely independent...of anything he gives or takes away. Thus she will not marry him for liking, esteem, gratitude for his love, but from the fulness of her own love. If... | |
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