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...after all, increasingly famous and boisterously charming. He could play the convivial clown entertaining the chaps at the pub, and the naughty boy whom women fought one another to comfort and reform. He encouraged such ministrations but certainly had no intentions of being changed. The poet chose for his bride Caitlin Macnamara, an Irish woman as flighty and flamboyant as himself, and promised her before their wedding, "You'll never, I'll never let you, grow wise, and I'll never, you shall never let me, grow wise, and we'll always be young and unwise together...
Moments after Fairfax is married to a blindfolded Elsie, he is rescued by Meryll, who disguises him as his long-away son, a royal yeomen newly assigned to the Tower guard. With Fairfax on the lam under a false indentity, Elsie finds herself stuck a bride for a much longer haul than Fairfax's scheduled execution had suggested...
When Harvard Professor of Philosophy George H. Palmer went to Wellesley College for a visit in 1887, he fell in love with his future bride, Wellesley President Alice Freeman...
...marks one more stroll through Foote's family plot. Again we find the Vaughn and Robedaux families forcing smiles and small talk as the Great War rages 5,000 miles from their southeastern Texas town. Again we see Horace Robedaux (William Converse-Roberts) pledging love to his gentle bride Lizzie (Hallie Foote) and declaring his independence from her father's wealth. Drama is tamped down by propriety until it explodes, like a defective firecracker, into the DTs, psychosis and suicide...
...wrote. But when her family finally approved the match, Kingsley had a new idea. "I wish to shew you & my God that I have gained purity & self-control . . . and therefore when we are married, will you consent to remain for the first month in my arms a virgin bride, a sister only?" Well, somehow they managed to conceive four children and live together in Victorian happiness for more than 30 years...