Belgravia: A London Magazine, Volume 74Chatto and Windus, 1891 |
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Page 46 - So much I feel my genial spirits droop, My hopes all flat, nature within me seems In all her functions weary of herself ; My race of glory run, and race of shame, And I shall shortly be with them that rest.
Page 139 - I am saying to you, but let me assure you these steps are constantly taken by persons who are desirous to dissolve an unhappy marriage ; it is true, for the wise man has said it, that, " a hated woman, when she is married, is a thing that the earth cannot bear," and that a " bad wife is to her husband as rottenness to his bones." You, however, must bear this great evil, or must adopt the remedy prescribed by the constitution of your country. I see...
Page 145 - I'll tell you. Suppose there was an action on a bill of exchange, and six people swore that they saw the defendant accept it, and six others swore they heard him say he should have to pay it, and six others knew him intimately, and swore to his handwriting ; and suppose, on the other side, they called a poor old man, who had been at school with the defendant forty years before, and had not seen him since, and he said he rather thought the acceptance was not his writing, why there'd be some evidence...
Page 139 - Perhaps it may be so. The law has nothing to say to that. If you had taken these proceedings, you would have been free from your present wife, and the woman whom you have secondly married would have been a respectable matron. As you have not done so, you stand there a convicted culprit, and it is my duty to pass sentence upon you. You will be imprisoned for one day.
Page 46 - I have visions of a somewhat massive though not corpulent figure reclining in an arm-chair, a white or nearly white head, shaggy eyebrows, and a singularly keen and kindly eye, fits of silence occasionally broken by an incisive and rather paradoxical remark, accompanied by a genial laugh and a rubbing of the hands together.
Page 145 - a man go into the London Docks sober without means of getting drunk and comes out of one of the cellars very drunk, wherein are a million gallons of wine, I think that would be reasonable evidence that he had stolen some of the wine in that cellar, though you could not prove that any wine was stolen or any wine was missed.