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" care must be taken to manage that as you shall direct ; I hope you won't expose me for my having exposed myself to you, but I cannot go any farther." And at that point I stood, and would hear of no matrimony by any means. Now, because this may seem a... "
The Novels and Miscellaneous Works of Daniel De Foe: The fortunate mistress ... - Page 125
by Daniel Defoe - 1855
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The fortunate mistress; or, A history of the life of Mademoiselle De Beleau ...

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...
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The Works of Daniel Defoe, Volume 7

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...
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The fortunate mistress

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...
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Works, Volume 12

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...
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Some Great English Novels: Studies in the Art of Fiction

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...
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The Shakespeare Head Edition of the Novels and Selected Writings of Daniel ...

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...
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Roxana

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...
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From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age of ...

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...
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Engendering Legitimacy: Law, Property, and Early Eighteenth-century Fiction

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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