My father had once been a favourite of hers , I believe ; but she was mortally affronted affront by his marriage marriage , on the ground that my mother was ‘ a wax doll ’ .

A large debt of gratitude was owing here ; but the intercourse of the last seven years , the equal footing and perfect unreserve which had soon followed Isabella 's marriage marriage , on their being left to each other , was yet a dearer , tenderer recollection .

His unhappy marriage marriage , immediately upon his return to England , with Madame Duval , then a waiting-girl at a tavern , contrary to the advice and entreaties of all his friends , among whom I was myself the most urgent , induced him to abandon abandon his native land , and fix fix his abode in France .

He survived this ill-judged marriage marriage but two years .

Miss Evelyn , to whom wrath and violence had hitherto been strangers , soon grew weary of such usage ; and rashly , and without a witness , consented consent to a private marriage marriage with Sir John Belmont , a very profligate young man , who had but too successfully found means to insinuate himself into her favour .

- Disappointed disappoint of the fortune he expected , by the inexorable rancour of the Duvals , he infamously burnt burn the certificate of their marriage marriage , and denied deny that they had ever been united .

The late Monsieur St. Aubert 's liberality , or extravagance , had so much involved his affairs , that his son found it necessary to dispose of a part of the family domain , and , some years after his marriage marriage , he sold sell it to Monsieur Quesnel , the brother of his wife , and retired retire to a small estate in Gascony , where conjugal felicity , and parental duties , divided his attention with the treasures of knowledge and the illuminations of genius .

Within six impressionable years his parents had died and his grandmother had faded fade off almost imperceptibly , until , for the first time since her marriage marriage , her person held for one day an unquestioned supremacy over her own drawing room .

My marriage marriage had drifted us away from each other .

This sort of thing had been growing worse and worse ever since his marriage marriage two years previously .

A pleasant study , if a bit distracting from its plenitude of associations to Australian-born Joan Gildea , who , on her marriage marriage , had been transplanted transplant into English soil , as care-free as a rose cut from the parent stem , and who now , after nearly twenty years , had returned return to the scene of her youth -- a widow , a working journalist and shorn of most of her early illusions .