Marriage: so call I the will of the twain to create the one that is more than those who created it.
I say that there has not been a positive
marriage in this case.
These questions, then as now, existed only for those who see nothing in
marriage but the pleasure married people get from one another, that is, only the beginnings of
marriage and not its whole significance, which lies in the family.
"The respectful summons has been duly served," replied the clerk, rising, to lay before the mayor the papers annexed to the
marriage certificate.
"But if you can give way to your husband," she said, speaking to Katharine, as if there were a separate understanding between them, "a happy
marriage is the happiest thing in the world."
Of course Shelley's mind was full of the sanctity of the moment, and indignant that "the hour for which the years did sigh" should thus be broken in upon by vulgar revelry; but while we may sympathise with his view, and admit to the full the sacredness, not to say the solemnity, of the
marriage ceremony, yet it is to be hoped that it still retains a naturally mirthful side, of which such public merriment is but the crude expression.
Know, then, that
marriages are consummated by means of the faculty of sound and the sense of hearing.
Bartle Massey had consented to attend the wedding at Adam's earnest request, under protest against
marriage in general and the
marriage of a sensible man in particular.
Under these circumstances, he proposed, in his own precipitate way, to hasten the date of the
marriage. The necessary legal delay would permit the ceremony to be performed on that day fortnight.
"I worship you, but I loathe
marriage, I hate its smugness, its safety, its compromise, and the thought of you interfering in my work, hindering me; what would you answer?"
"I think my master told me that the
marriage was to be to-morrow?"
While the true Grace was slowly and painfully winning her way back to life on her bed in a German hospital, the false Grace was presented to Lady Janet's friends as the relative by
marriage of the Mistress of Mablethorpe House.