Word: deters
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...throne. It is said - the story being told to me by persons high in authority in England - that her heart's first affections were given to Richard Vaux of Quaker City, and she would have married him if she had been allowed, but state reasons prevailed to deter her. The Queen of England could not marry a subject, even of royal blood, and therefore she was forced to forget her fancy for the American, - or not quite forget it: in memory of it, my informant says, she has permitted her children to marry according to their hearts' choice rather than...