But over her own
daughters she had felt how far from simple and easy is the business, apparently so commonplace, of marrying off one's
daughters.
The justice declined executing his office, as he said he had no clerk present, nor no book about justice business; and that he could not carry all the law in his head about stealing away daughters, and such sort of things.
Mr Fitzpatrick declared that the law concerning daughters was out of the present case; that stealing a muff was undoubtedly felony, and the goods being found upon the person, were sufficient evidence of the fact.
THE
DAUGHTER [violently] Will you please keep your impertinent remarks to yourself?
There we may learn that as credit sinks, the body becomes a corpse, and this is what must happen very soon to the banker who is proud to own so good a logician as you for his
daughter." But Eugenie, instead of stooping, drew herself up under the blow.
....fair Atalanta, swift of foot, the
daughter of Schoeneus, who had the beaming eyes of the Graces, though she was ripe for wedlock rejected the company of her equals and sought to avoid marriage with men who eat bread.'
I can tell thee, brother, when I came to hear that thou wert a governor I thought I should have dropped dead with pure joy; and thou knowest they say sudden joy kills as well as great sorrow; and as for Sanchica thy
daughter, she leaked from sheer happiness.
The baron, who had been striding up and down the room, now seated himself; an icy sternness darkened his face; he looked fixedly at his
daughter, and said to her, in a gentle, weakened voice,--
He commanded the master to come before him, and said, 'If you will take gold, and give up your right to my
daughter, you shall have as much as you like.'
He loathed the idea that his
daughter should be united to a Christian, but he feared the resentment of Felix if he should appear lukewarm, for he knew that he was still in the power of his deliverer if he should choose to betray him to the Italian state which they inhabited.
If the honour were proposed to me of becoming known to Mr Dorrit's family--I think two
daughters were mentioned?--'
There, folded thick on the
daughter's head, lay the massive dark hair, which, on the mother's, was fast turning gray.