And, at any rate, I would never concede him that right.

Say quickly, then, sister, what is it?
What means this about the king's command, and what matrimonial scheme have you women been again contriving?
For I well know that you and my mother have no rest with the thought of seeing me still unmarried.

You want to bestow on me, whether or no, the happiness of marriage; yet, nevertheless, it appears to me that you both have sufficiently learned from experience that this happiness is only imaginary, and that marriage in reality is, at the very least, the vestibule of hell." "It is true," laughed the duchess; "the only happy moment of my married life was when my husband died.

For in that I am more fortunate than my mother, who has her tyrant still living about her.

Ah, how I pity my mother!" "Dare not to revile our noble father!" cried the earl, almost threateningly.