Uncle John's gift was a substantial check that would furnish the newly married couple with modest capital to promote their business or which they could use in case of emergencies.

This may have been owing to a defect of education, or it may have been that she was so happily married to a husband six years her juniorwhom she could manage.

"They believe themselves lawfully married.

I wonder whether a middle-aged husband ought to be considered as legally married to all the accretions that have overgrown the slenderness of his bride, since he led her to the altar, and which make her so much more than he ever bargained for!

Young Dick was too impatient and too skeptical to wait until the end of the war, and, to the amazement of his aunts and the amusement of Acredale, he carried Rosa off, one day, and was secretly married in the rector's study at Warchester, so that his first son was born under the Stars and Bars in Richmond, while Dick was beleaguering the walls at Fort Walthall, four miles away.

Nothing is to me more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new-married couple, in that of the lady particularly: it tells you, that her lot is disposed of in this world: that you can have no hopes of her.

" "There was a story of an inamorata in private somewhere," cried the marquess; "why at one time it was even said he was privately married to her.

At the village hotel he had learned that a lady named Duvernois had arrived in the place during the previous summer, and that she had been publicly married to a Doctor Leighton.

The elder, Edwin, was afterward married to the sister of the King of Hungary; but the English prince dying without issue, Solomon gave his sister-in-law, Agatha, daughter of the emperor Henry II, in marriage to Edward, the younger brother; and she bore him Edgar, Atheling, Margaret, afterward Queen of Scotland, and Christina, who retired into a convent.

"Since you ask me," said Sor Teresa, slowly and coldly, "I think you would be happier married to Marcos than in religion.

Isaac arrives, is introduced to the lady, elopes with her, and is duly married.

But if you ever lisp a word to any living soul till I'm safely married to CUPID, I'll kill you, dead sure.

I will now be honestly married.

And if I do, I will not leave you till I see you either honourably married, or absolutely quit of the wretch: and, in this last case, I will take you down with me, in defiance of the whole world: or, if you refuse to go with me, stay with you, and accompany you as your shadow whithersoever you go.

Ye are richly married.

my daughter Hilda was born (subsequently married to E.J. Routh).

Mr. SPECTATOR, I am a young Woman of Beauty and Quality, and suitably married to a Gentleman who doats on me.

"Fruitfulness" contains charming pictures of homely married life, delightful glimpses of childhood and youth: the first smile, the first step, the first word, followed by the playfulness and the flirtations of boyhood, and the happiness which waits on the espousals of those who truly love.

She was the daughter of a Hammersmith draper, at whose death, a few years ago, she had become possessed of a small house and an income of forty pounds a year; her two elder sisters were comfortably married to London tradesmen, but she did not see very much of them, for their ways were not hers, and Miss Shepperson had always been one of those singular persons who shrink into solitude the moment they feel ill at ease.

So, that was the attitude this ruffian took with a respectable and ostensibly married woman!

"'She's very likely married already,' I ses.

'Unhappily married ' 'borne with heroic cheerfulness.'"

"But I suddenly discover," continued the old, lady, "that the little wretch is marriedactually married.

Marriedhalf married, wholly married, married truly or falsely, by the sudden leap of violent chancebut a marriage it was, of some sort.

She is not so extensively and completely married.