It is always and only the first recipient that causes a woman's heart to flutter, and often it flutters long.) 144
A second gift is generally a mortgage—if it is not a sale.
A mortgage is difficult to bind. For
There is a statute of limitations in love as there is in law. Nor is the former to be set aside by bond.
That pair is in a parlous state when either party discovers that the title was not properly searched. Since
Everybody expects a fee simple,—though few deserve it, God wot!
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Perhaps the most durable conquest is the incomplete one. Which sounds illogical. But it is well to remember that
Repletion seems to cause, in the man, temporary indifference; while
Repletion causes, in the woman, enduring content. And in this we can detect a significant distinction between the sexes: namely the fact that