[Mary Anerley by R. D. Blackmore]@TWC D-Link bookMary Anerley CHAPTER XXIII 9/32
The key-note of her heart is high, and a lot of things fall below harmony, and notably (if she is not a stupe), some of her own dear love's expressions before she has made up her soul to love him. This is a hard time for almost any man, who feels his random mind dipped into with a spirit-gauge and a saccharometer.
But in spite of all these indications, Robin Lyth stuck to himself, which is the right way to get credit for sticking. "Johnny, my dear," said Deborah Popplewell to her valued husband, just about the time when bold Carroway was getting hot and sore upon the Filey Road, yet steadily enlarging all the penance of return, "things ought to be coming to a point, I think.
We ought not to let them so be going on forever.
Young people like to be married in the spring; the birds are singing, and the price of coal goes down.
And they ought to be engaged six months at least.
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