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.
What the foul fiend is the meaning of all this?
E.D.E.N. SouthworthTags: exclamations exclamation
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. SouthworthTags: humor fools insult knaves insult-to-injury capitola
Great self-respect is as often manifested in forbearance as in resentment.
E.D.E.N. SouthworthTags: self-respect forebearance
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. SouthworthTags: love passion heart misguidedness
Sarcastic and merciless one, you glory in the pain you give!
E.D.E.N. SouthworthTags: insult exclamations
Ah, it is impossible."
"No, it is only very difficult - so very difficult that I shall be sure to accomplish it!
Tags: truth paradox impossible impossibility doctorish
Things difficult - almost to impossibility - can always be accomplished. Write that upon your tablets, for it is a valuable truth.
E.D.E.N. SouthworthTags: truth difficulty doctorish
It was your destiny - let us hope it will prove a glorious one.
E.D.E.N. SouthworthHe shall bite the dust!
E.D.E.N. SouthworthTags: bit-the-dust
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