That the general should come forward to solicit the alliance, or that he should even very heartily approve it, they were not refined enough to make any parading
stipulation; but the decent appearance of consent must be yielded, and that once obtained -- and their own hearts made them trust that it could not be very long denied -- their willing approbation was instantly to follow.
The feeling of furious anger with his wife, who would not observe the proprieties and keep to the one
stipulation he had laid on her, not to receive her lover in her own home, gave him no peace.
There's only one
stipulation. If things should come to the worst, and if the business should prove so bad that nothing can set it right, then hold back this cheque, for there is no use in pouring water into a broken basin, and if the lad should fall, he will want something to pick himself up again with."
'Let me pass out of notice (she said) as completely as if I had passed out of life; I wish to be forgotten by some, and to be unknown by others.' With this one
stipulation, she left me free to write the present narrative of what passed at the interview between us.
Arnold, sacrificed--by express
stipulation on the part of Lady Lundie--to the prurient delicacy which forbids the bridegroom, before marriage, to sleep in the same house with the bride, found himself ruthlessly shut out from Sir Patrick's hospitality, and exiled every night to a bedroom at the inn.
Woodhouse felt no unwillingness, and only made the usual
stipulation of not sitting at the bottom of the table himself, with the usual regular difficulty of deciding who should do it for him.
"If thou art advising me to marry, in order that immediately on slaying the giant I may become king, and be able to confer favours on thee, and give thee what I have promised, let me tell thee I shall be able very easily to satisfy thy desires without marrying; for before going into battle I will make it a
stipulation that, if I come out of it victorious, even I do not marry, they shall give me a portion portion of the kingdom, that I may bestow it upon whomsoever I choose, and when they give it to me upon whom wouldst thou have me bestow it but upon thee?"
Crawford should be disengaged: the young ladies did not forget that
stipulation, and though Mrs.
It was three miles to where I lived, and I had received a pass with the
stipulation that I could sit down as long as there were no paying passengers in need of a seat.
Fairlie was present (by my express
stipulation), with Mr.
I was just to give a plain, true statement of my acquirements and qualifications, and name what
stipulations I chose to make, and then await the result.
If the existence of the Trust was proved, and if the nature of the
stipulations contained in it was made known to me, I could then say positively what the legal chances were of your being able to set up a Case on the strength of it: and I could also tell you whether I should or should not feel justified in personally undertaking that Case under a private arrangement with yourself.