The Marriage of ElinorUnited States Book Company, 1891 - 461 Seiten |
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Seite 280 - ... knows if we are right or wrong — I not to advise you so, or you not to take my advice. Elinor, it is my duty, and I will say it though it were to break my heart. There only could you avoid this strife of tongues. John spoke the truth. He said, as the boy grew up we should have — many troubles. I have known women endure everything that their children might grow up in a natural situation, in their proper sphere. Think of this — I am saying it against my own interest, against my own heart....
Seite 208 - Well, if you won't you won't, and there's an end of it : only stand up fair and don't bother me with nonsense about trustees.
Seite 293 - ... at all, or at least ends badly, as people say. It happened to myself on one occasion to put together in a book the story of some friends of mine, in which this was the case. They were young, they were hopeful, they had all life before them, but they did not marry. And when the last chapter came to the consciousness of the publisher he struck, with the courage of a true Briton, not ashamed of his principles, and refused to pay. He said it was no story at all — so beautiful is marriage in the...
Seite 268 - I have spent my life in this cottage," said Mrs. Dennistoun. "My husband died when I was thirty — my life was over, and still I was young ; but I had Elinor. There were some who pitied me too, but their pity was uncalled for. Elinor will live like her mother, she has her boy.
Seite 281 - Now you must feel that your conscience ia clear. Mother, if I had to wander the world from place to place, without even a spot of ground on which to rest my foot, I would never, never do what you say. What ! take my child to grow up in that tainted air; give him up to be taught such things as they teach ! Never, never, never ! His natural place, did you say 1 I would rather the slums of London were his natural place.
Seite 337 - ... Uncle John. He had followed the development of the boy's mind always with a reference to those facts of which Philip knew nothing, which would be so wonderful to him when the revelation came. To John that little world at Lakeside — where the ladies had made an artificial existence for themselves, which was at the same time so natural, so sweet, so full of all the humanities and charities...
Seite 337 - Tathain had little perhaps that was heavenly about him, but he loved Elinor and her son, and was absolutely free of selfishness in respect to them. Never, he was aware, could either woman or child be more to him than they were now. Nay, they were everything to him, but on their own account, not his ; he desired their welfare absolutely, and not his own through them. Elinor was capable at any moment of turning upon him, of saying, if not in words, yet in undeniable inference, what is it to you...
Seite 27 - ... the unimportance, or ill-report, or unjust disapproval of the mother in records of this description — that it is almost impossible to maintain her due rank and character in a piece of history, which has to be kept within certain limits — and where her daughter the heroine must have the first place. To lessen her pre-eminence by dwelling at length upon the mother — unless that mother is a fool, or a termagant, or something thorougbly contrasting with the beauty and virtues of the daughter...
Seite 143 - ... of lace to arrange, just enough to keep up a possibility of something to do for Mrs. Dennistoun in the blank of all other possibilities — for to interest herself or to occupy herself about anything that should be wanted beyond that awful limit of the wedding-day was of course out of the question. Life seemed to stop there for the mother, as it was virtually to begin for the child...
Seite 356 - Had Elinor fulfilled what would appear to many her first duty, and stood by Phil through neglect, ill-treatment, and misery, as she had vowed, for better, for worse, she would by this time have been not only a wretched but a deteriorated woman, and her son most probably would have been injured both in his moral and intellectual being. What she had done was not the abstract duty of her marriage vow, but it had been better — had it not been better for them both? In such a question who is to be the...