On your silence as to this trumped-up charge of a secret marriage, and also of wrongs pretended to be done by my hands, depends the comfort of Lovelace Ellsworth.
To no plan of Gill's had she objected after consenting to a secret marriage, but she had never dreamed otherwise than that the ceremony would be performed by a clergyman.
Among them was a gentleman who had made a secret marriage, for which his wealthy mother, if she had known of it, would have disinherited him.
Her heart was sore at having consented to a secret marriage.
With all his zeal to indulge the Queen's indignation, he could not have used the term of a secret marriage.
The elder sister caressed the younger tenderly; told her of all the dangers of a secret marriage; of all the miseries of an ill-sorted one; and implored her to dismiss her wealthy lover, and struggle with her misplaced love.
No one shall have reason to say of me, as they would say if I went home with you, that I had connived at the young heir's secret marriage with my sister for the sake of securing a luxurious home for myself.
Besides, Hannah," he continued, "this will not be a secret marriage.
The old perplexity growing out of the coincidence of illegality and validity in the same contract still exists;[1196] and the conscience may still be bound by secret marriage, though the court may declare it null and void.
For by a rule of the spiritual courts, in a suit growing out of a secret marriage, the plaintiff who affirmed the validity of the espousals, if the fact were denied by the defendant, had to prove his allegation.
There had been a close intimacy between the Princess and General Fitzroy--there was the rumour of a secret marriage--and the trouble was that she had left everything to him.
Had the Theodore Judsons some knowledge of a secret marriage on the part of Matthew Haygarth?
I cannot for a moment imagine that any persuasion of mine would induce Charlotte to consent to a secret marriage, after your brother's fair and liberal conduct.
Of course my idea of a secret marriage was at the best only a plausible hypothesis; and I hardly dared to hug myself with the hope that it might turn up trumps.
Your situation is more imperilled by this tale of a secret marriage, which Josepha, in good faith, brought to the ears of the Wildenaus.
Then what is left to us--my beloved, save separation or a secret marriage?
How can I ever be happy, even in a secret marriage, if I am constantly compelled to dread discovery for my father's sake?
Why am I now to be forced into a secret marriage, and at a day's notice?
If you are tempted to say in your heart, 'Why did this angel of goodness and purity consent to a secret marriage?
It won’t really be a secret marriage, except for the mere ceremony, then.
But a secret marriage--well, it doesn’t exactly have consequences, in the ordinary way.
Of course there’s nothing absolutely wrong in a secret marriage.
A secret marriage, a swift discovery that her idol was of very common clay, abuse so violent that she was obliged to forbid him forever her presence, and the disenchantment was complete.
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