"Elopement" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... native society the old laws and practices were harsh, but not without a certain stamp of high-mindedness. Stealthy adultery was punished with death; open elopement was properly considered virtue in comparison, and compounded for a fine in land. The male adulterer alone seems to have been punished. It is correct manners for a jealous man to hang himself; a jealous woman ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... the virulent terms with which the enclosed letter abounds: and then, if thou supposest that I have made such another, and have added to it all the flowers of the same blow, in the former letters of the same saucy creature, and those in that of Miss Harlowe, which she left for me on her elopement, thou wilt certainly think, that I have provocations sufficient to justify me in all that I ...
— Clarissa, Volume 6 (of 9) - The History Of A Young Lady • Samuel Richardson
... man, you know—tells me that this Davis fellow is of most ordinary people, what is called a 'bounder,' you know. Adelle naturally did not meet him here, but at the studio of one of her friends. I knew nothing whatever about it until just before the elopement—the very day before, in fact, when I surprised them together in a motor-car. I spoke to the girl that night, of course, kindly but severely. I had no idea she could do such a thing! It must have been in her mind a ...
— Clark's Field • Robert Herrick
... for a Day Aleta's Terrible Secret The Romance of Enola A Handsome Engineer's Flirtation Was She Sweetheart or Wife Della's Handsome Lover Flora Garland's Courtship My Sweetheart Idabell Pretty Madcap Dorothy The Loan of a Lover A Fatal Elopement The Girl He Forsook Which Loved Her Best A Dangerous Flirtation Garnetta, the Silver King's Daughter Flora Temple Pretty Rose Hall Cora, the Pet of the Regiment ...
— Kidnapped at the Altar - or, The Romance of that Saucy Jessie Bain • Laura Jean Libbey
... the noise, came in, and being informed of this adventure, began to comfort Mr Oneale for the lady's elopement; observing that he seemed to have had a lucky escape, that it was better she should elope before, than after marriage — The Hibernian was of a very different opinion. He said, 'If he had been once married, she might have eloped as ...
— The Expedition of Humphry Clinker • Tobias Smollett
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