| Daniel Defoe - 1903 - 320 pages
...sat up together — I said, " Come, 't is one o'clock ; I must go to bed." " Well," says he, " I '11 go with you." " No, no ; " says I ; "go to your own...I had then was given up to the husband, and I was henceforth to be under his authority only ; and as I had money enough, and needed not fear being what... | |
| Daniel Defoe, Howard Maynadier - 1904 - 618 pages
...sat up together — I said, " Come, 't is one o'clock ; I must go to bed." " Well," says he, " I 'll go with you." " No, no ; " says I ; "go to your own...I had then was given up to the husband, and I was henceforth to be under his authority only ; and as I had money enough, and needed not fear being what... | |
| Daniel Defoe - 1903 - 622 pages
...construed it quite another way, namely, that he aimed at the money. But how surprised did he [216] Jook, and how was he confounded, when he found me receive...I had then was given up to the husband, and I was henceforth to be under his authority only ; and as I had money enough, and needed not fear being what... | |
| Daniel Defoe - 1908 - 332 pages
...construed it quite another way, namely, that he aimed at the money. But how surprised did he [216] look, and how was he confounded, when he found me...I had then was given up to the husband, and I was henceforth to be under his authority only ; and as I had money enough, and needed not fear being what... | |
| Orlo Williams - 1926 - 316 pages
...him in this article while it strengthened her determination against matrimony. " I knew (she says) that, while I was a mistress, it is customary for...had been buying my lodging too dear a great deal." However, though the merchant's project, as Roxana briefly puts it, " was a bite upon himself, while... | |
| Daniel Defoe - 1927 - 256 pages
...Mistress, it is customary for the Person •' kept, to receive from them that keep ; but if I shou'd be a wife, all I had then, was given up to the Husband^nd I was thenceforth to be under his Authority only ; and as I had Money enough, and needed... | |
| Daniel Defoe - 1982 - 420 pages
...was a Mistress, it is customary for the Person kept, to receive from them that keep; but if I shou'd be a Wife, all I had then, was given up to the Husband,...Mistress, so I had no need to give him twenty Thousand Pound to marry me, which had been buying my Lodging too dear a great deal. Thus his Project of coming... | |
| Amy Dru Stanley - 1998 - 300 pages
...person, her body, her "being." As the protagonist in Daniel Defoe's novel Roxana explained, "if I shou'd be a Wife, all I had then, was given up to the Husband,...was thenceforth to be under his Authority, only." Like all other contracts, marriage hinged on the principles of mutual consent and exchange. But, unlike... | |
| Susan Glover - 2006 - 240 pages
...offer of marriage. She reasons to herself that, as a mistress, her money was her own, "but if I shou'd be a Wife, all I had then, was given up to the Husband,...enough, and needed not fear being what they call a ctut-off MwtrMj, so I had no need to give him twenty Thousand Pound to marry me, which had been buying... | |
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