The priest then turning toward the bride, inquired:

"Wilt thou have this man to be thy wedded husband, etc., etc., so long as ye both shall live?"

To which the bride, throwing aside her veil, answered, firmly:

"No! Not if he were the last man and I the last woman on the face of the earth and the human race was about to become extinct and the angel of Gabriel came down from above to ask it of me as a personal favor."

The effect of this outburst, this revelation, this explosion, may be imagined but can never be adequately described.

E.D.E.N. Southworth

Stichwörter: humor wedding reversal



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What the foul fiend is the meaning of all this?

E.D.E.N. Southworth

Stichwörter: exclamations exclamation



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It means that you two, precious father and son, would be a pair of knaves if you had sense enough; but, failing in that, you are only a pair of fools!

E.D.E.N. Southworth

Stichwörter: humor fools insult knaves insult-to-injury capitola



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Great self-respect is as often manifested in forbearance as in resentment.

E.D.E.N. Southworth

Stichwörter: self-respect forebearance



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The unregenerate human heart is, perhaps,the most inconsistent thing in all nature; and in nothing is it more capricious than in the manifestations of its passions; and in no passion is it so fantastic as in that which it miscalls love, but which is really often only appetite.

E.D.E.N. Southworth

Stichwörter: love passion heart misguidedness



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Sarcastic and merciless one, you glory in the pain you give!

E.D.E.N. Southworth

Stichwörter: insult exclamations



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Ah, it is impossible."

"No, it is only very difficult - so very difficult that I shall be sure to accomplish it!

E.D.E.N. Southworth

Stichwörter: truth paradox impossible impossibility doctorish



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Things difficult - almost to impossibility - can always be accomplished. Write that upon your tablets, for it is a valuable truth.

E.D.E.N. Southworth

Stichwörter: truth difficulty doctorish



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It was your destiny - let us hope it will prove a glorious one.

E.D.E.N. Southworth

Stichwörter: witty destiny



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He shall bite the dust!

E.D.E.N. Southworth

Stichwörter: bit-the-dust



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