 I did not suppose he was a malefactor. I meant, that if he were a malefactor, your place would be in the prison beside him. My daughter, if the cross comes to you as a wife, you must carry it as a wife. You may say, 'I will forsake my husband,' but you...  Writings - Page 112by George Eliot - 1907Full view - About this book
 | Mary Ann Evans - 1863 - 272 pages
...flesh and blood, that dies if it be sundered. Your hnsband is not a malefactor?" Romola flushed and started. " Heaven forbid ! No ; I accuse him of nothing."...You may say, ' I will forsake my husband, ' but you can not cease to be a wife. " "Yet if— oh how could I bear—" Romola had involuntarily begun to... | |
 | George Eliot - 1870 - 816 pages
...the light of purity ; blood, that dies if it be sundered. Your husband is not a malefactor1 " liomola started. " Heaven forbid ! No; I accuse him of nothing."...meant, that if he were a malefactor, your place would bo in the prison beside him. My daughter, if there is a cry of anguish, you, my if the cross comes... | |
 | George Eliot, Alexander Main - Aphorisms and apothegms in literature - 1873 - 444 pages
...daughter ? Sorrow without duty — bitter herbs, and no bread with them. My daughter, if the cross ccfines to you as a wife, you must carry it as a wife. You...forsake my husband,' but you cannot cease to be a wife. The higher life begins for us, my daughter, when we renounce our own will to bow before a Divine law.... | |
 | 1910 - 728 pages
...attentive ear, and understands how deep the sword has gone ; but there is no hesitation about his answer. " My daughter, if the cross comes to you as a wife, you must carry it as a wife." And so she takes it upon her shoulders again, and goes along the stony road obediently. Greatest and... | |
 | George Eliot - 1875 - 460 pages
...and what will you find, my daughter ? Sorrow without duty — bitter herbs, and no bread with them. My daughter, if the cross comes to you as a wife,...forsake my husband/ but you cannot cease to be a wife. The higher life begins for us, my daughter, when we renounce our own will to bow before a Divine law.... | |
 | Mary Ann Evans - 1880 - 494 pages
...and what will you find, my daughter? Sorrow without duty — bitter herbs, and no bread with them. My daughter, if the cross comes to you as a wife,...forsake my husband,' but you cannot cease to be a wife. The higher life begins for us, my daughter, when we renounce our own will to bow before a Divine law.... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - Women - 1882 - 448 pages
...crystal on the Scythian cliffs, the more the proud winds court it, still the purer. — Beaumont. 1738 My daughter, if the cross comes to you as a wife,...forsake my husband," but you cannot cease to be a wife. — George Eliot. 1739 Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed... | |
 | George Willis Cooke - Novelists, English - 1883 - 454 pages
...flesh and blood, that dies if it be sundered. Your husband is not a malefactor? " Eomola flushed and started. " Heaven forbid ! No ; I accuse him of nothing."...to you as a wife, you must carry it as a wife. You majr say, ' I will forsake my husband,' but you cannot cease to be a wife." " Yet if — oh, how could... | |
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