CHAPTER XXVII The Vow of Emily IN Dean Priest Emily found, for the first time since her father had died, a companion who could fully sympathize.
"I wish she could pay some attention to the ground under her feet; but I vow, if she was ourn I'd let her slop paint all over the house before I could scold her.
" he cried, "Well I vow!
As for the saintly consecration, the vow of constancy, that was forgotten: the blooming and charming Present prevailed over the Past; and, at length, his nun was indeed buried.
If so, his better nature pronounced the vow "more honoured in the breach than in the observance," for with a second effort, he spoke.
" said he in a growl of which the music was wholly confined to his chest and throat, for he kept his teeth clenched; and seemed registering to himself an inward vow that nothing earthly should wring from him a smile.
" "I vow, Lucy, she should not move me: or, she should move me but by one thing—true, yes, and passionate love.
The legend went, unconfirmed and unaccredited, but still propagated, that this was the portal of a vault, imprisoning deep beneath that ground, on whose surface grass grew and flowers bloomed, the bones of a girl whom a monkish conclave of the drear middle ages had here buried alive for some sin against her vow.
She rattled on: "My present business is to enjoy youth, and not to think of fettering myself, by promise or vow, to this man or that.
If you go to church tomorrow in the very costume you have on at present, without telling anyone why you do so, until it is all over, I'll give you—why, I vow I'll give you five dollars for that quilt of yours.
I made a solemn vow when Peter was dying that I would never curl my hair again, and I should have kept it.
But if he had a wife I reckon she couldn't make him break that vow.
At last he looked up and said coldly,— "Now, then, Maggie, there are but two courses for you to take,—either you vow solemnly to me, with your hand on my father's Bible, that you will never have another meeting or speak another word in private with Philip Wakem, or you refuse, and I tell my father everything; and this month, when by my exertions he might be made happy once more, you will cause him the blow of knowing that you are a disobedient, deceitful daughter, who throws away her own resp
A man vows, and yet will not cast away the means of breaking his vow.
He mentally lifted up this vow as if it would urge the result he longed for—he tried to believe in the potency of that prayerful resolution—its potency to determine death.
" She seated herself on a dark ottoman with the brown books behind her, looking in her plain dress of some thin woollen-white material, without a single ornament on her besides her wedding-ring, as if she were under a vow to be different from all other women; and Will sat down opposite her at two yards' distance, the light falling on his bright curls and delicate but rather petulant profile, with its defiant curves of lip and chin.
Kings, I vow!
Anne put it on one evening for Matthew's and Marilla's benefit, and recited "The Maiden's Vow" for them in the kitchen.
I've decided to give 'The Maiden's Vow.
Not a soul in Avonlea knows it but us, and we pledged a solemn vow never to reveal it to anyone else.
