A few cecillades, a few waltzes, a few tete-a-tete, and he proposes. It is a pretty dream for a few months ; an easy yoke, perhaps, for a few years ; then gradually the illusions drop one by one, as the leaves drop from a shaken rose, loth, yet forced... 'Held in bondage'; or, Granville de Vigne, by Ouida - Page 304by Marie Louise De la Ramée - 1863Full view - About this book
| 1863 - 520 pages
...utter, and he proposes — he Is accepted; they are both dreadfully in love, of course, and — marry. It is a pretty dream for a few months; an easy yoke,...it in those few morning calls, those few ball-room têtes-à-têtes, when the glamour was on him, and he would have cared nothing though she could not... | |
| william harrison ainsworth - 1863 - 516 pages
...utter, and he proposes — he is accepted; they are both dreadfully in love, of course, and — marry. It is a pretty dream for a few months; an easy yoke,...it in those few morning calls, those few ball-room têtes-à-tètes, when the glamouI was on him, and he would have cared nothing though she could not... | |
| Ouida - 1864 - 466 pages
...utter, and he proposes—he is accepted; they are both dreadfully in love, of course, and—marry. It is a pretty dream for a few months; an easy yoke,...narrowed, bigoted, ill-stored, with no single thought VOL. ii. 40 in it akin to his own. What could he learn of it in those few morning calls, those few... | |
| Martin James Boon - 1885 - 694 pages
...young man meets with a young girl in society, he falls in love with her, a few glances, a few meetings and he proposes. It is a pretty dream for a few months ; then gradually the illusions drop one by one. He finds her mind narrow, illstored, with no single... | |
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