Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

True, she was my Aunt, married to an Uncle related to me only by marriage, but why she had married a man twice her age, and more, perhaps, I did not know or much care.

At no time does he seem to have proposed marriage, and Mrs. King was evidently torn between a concern for her daughter's emotions and the desire to believe that the friendship might be continued without harm to her reputation.

Meynell once again paid his debts and it was Katie, rather than Thompson, whose life was soon ended, for she died in childbirth in April, 1901, in the first year of her marriage.

From the outset, she must have realized that marriage with him was out of the question, and although she was displeased by the `` unwarrantable '' interference, it seems probable that she did agree with her mother's suggestion that the poet was `` perhaps '' a man `` most fitted to live & die solitary, & in the love only of the Highest Lover ''.

If his circumspection in regard to Philip's sensibilities went so far that he even refused to grant a dispensation for the marriage of Amadee's daughter, Agnes, to the son of the dauphin of Vienne -- a truly peacemaking move according to thirteenth-century ideas, for Savoy and Dauphine were as usual fighting on opposite sides -- for fear that he might seem to be favoring the anti-French coalition, he would certainly never take the far more drastic step of ordering the return of Gascony to Edward, even though, as he admitted to the English ambassadors, he had been advised that the original cession was invalid.

The store was their marriage, and when Alfred had to leave it there was nothing to hold them together.

This was not a search for a `` magic formula '', but rather an examination of basic principles pertaining especially to all types of communication in marriage.

even marriage and the family was seen as a contractual arrangement.

She had quarreled with Lucien, she had resisted his demands for money -- and if she died, by the provisions of her marriage contract, Lucien would inherit legally not only the immediate sum of gold under the floorboards in the office, but later, when the war was over, her father's entire estate.

And in all likelihood, by now, there was more than one person in the house who knew the terms of her marriage contract.

It might be, indeed it had already proved to be a marriage without love, but it was marriage.

Dr. W. B. I. Martin officiated, and the bride was given in marriage by her father.

The bride was given in marriage by her father.

Dan Beam presented music and the bride was given in marriage by her father.

He believes that greatness is a marriage between the man and the times as was aptly represented by Churchill, who would very possibly have gone down in history as a political failure if it had not been for Hitler's war.

There were no depressingly serious cases: the ward doctor sometimes teamed up with the chaplain to serve as a marriage counselor -- sometimes the Navy sent people back to the States to preserve a marriage -- but mental health as a rule was very high.

John's mother died not long after his marriage, and there was even less Cooper money left.

Mary was free to marry again, not knowing that the Sturch had secretly given her a divorce, thinking that death had dissolved her marriage.

It is possible that an initially mild attraction to Weightman assumed increasing importance to Anne over time, in the absence of other opportunities for love, marriage, and children.

Both the Duchess and her husband Richard Bertie first opposed the marriage, and the Queen initially withheld her consent.

Her father Jobst initially opposed a marriage despite Kepler's nobility ; though he had inherited his grandfather's nobility, Kepler's poverty made him an unacceptable match.

Fully devoted to Henry and the royal prerogative, More initially co-operated with the King's new policy, denouncing Wolsey in Parliament and joining the opinion of the theologians at Oxford and Cambridge that the marriage of Henry to Catherine had been unlawful.

East Anglia initially consisted of Norfolk and Suffolk, but upon the marriage of the East Anglian princess Etheldreda, the Isle of Ely also became part of the kingdom.

For the young couple, the marriage was initially amiable but distant – Louis-Auguste's shyness meant that he failed to consummate the union, much to his wife's distress, while his fear of being manipulated by her for Imperial purposes caused him to behave coldly towards her in public.

The FMC was initially given jurisdiction to hear applications for nullity and dissolution of marriage,

She initially rejects the idea of marriage and romance, feeling that it would break up her family and separate her from the sisters she adores.

Oscar initially proposes marriage between his son Leo and Regina's daughter Alexandra-first cousins-as a means of getting Horace's money, but Horace and Alexandra are repulsed by the suggestion.

Bizet's marriage was initially happy, but was affected by Geneviève's nervous instability ( inherited from both her parents ), her difficult relations with her mother and by Mme.

Danaher, angry that Sean outbid him for the Thornton land adjacent to his property, initially refuses to sanction the marriage until several town locals, including the parish priest, conspire to trick him into believing that the wealthy Widow Tillane ( Mildred Natwick ) wants to marry him, but only if Mary Kate is no longer living in the house.

Thought was initially given to a marriage with Eleanor, sister of the King of England, but instead Philip invited John of Luxembourg, King of Bohemia, to Fontainebleau.

Alfred Otis had not initially favored the marriage and was not satisfied with Edwin's progress as a lawyer.

Henry initially sought to recover territory lost to Castile by assisting the revolt of Philip, brother of Alfonso X of Castile, in 1270, but eventually declined, preferring to establish an alliance with Castile through the marriage of his son Theobald to Violant of Castile, daughter of Alfonso X.

Vane, a mystery writer, initially meets Lord Peter Wimsey when she is on trial for poisoning her lover ( Strong Poison ) — he falls in love with her and proposes marriage but she refuses to begin a relationship with him, traumatised as she is by her dead lover's treatment of her and her recent ordeal.

Moore did not initially tell his parents of his marriage, possibly because his wife was an English Protestant, but more probably because his marriage to a woman without a dowry would not help his financial prospects.

Leopold and Lilian initially planned to hold their official, civil marriage after the end of the war and the liberation of Belgium, but in the meantime, a secret religious marriage ceremony took place on 11 September 1941, in the chapel of Laeken Castle, in the presence of Queen Elisabeth, Henri Baels, and Cardinal van Roey, Archbishop of Mechelen and primate of Belgium.

The marriage of Constance and Alfonso initially faced papal opposition, apparently due to a kinship between Constance and Agnes.

Plushbottom initially appeared as a man of wealth, whom Emmy pursued for ten years before their marriage.

In the play End of the Rainbow, set just before their marriage, Deans is initially portrayed as a man who tries to wean Garland from her addictions.

Edgar is a mute elf who is initially sent to observe and undermine Sam's marriage – all with the blessing of Endora ( Agnes Moorehead ), of course.

This marriage caused great sorrow to her mother, because Rex, though initially planning to convert to Roman Catholicism, turns out to have divorced a previous wife in Canada, so he and Julia ended up marrying in the Church of England.