Word: honours
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...family were priests, from Aaron to my father. It was my honour to close the eyes of my famous teacher...
...these things and some of these things and none of these things at all. The press played us for what we were worth and then dropped us like the younger sister of a two-bit whore. But there were parts of us they never touched. We had our honour and our price. There were levels of profundity and nuance they could never fathom. So be clam because I'm not about to unveil out mystique here. Probably I had you scared, worried at least that I would attempt to expose our secret. Fear not, I'm no stoolie. And besides...
...David." Where the American version of the ring blessing simply states, "With this Ring I thee wed: In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost," the Canadian text puts it, "With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee honour, and all my worldly goods with thee I share." Unlike the American version, the Canadian goes into the purpose of marriage. Said the Rev. Hayes: "Matrimony was ordained ... for the procreation of children ... and for the mutual community, help, and comfort, that the one ought to have of the other...
Alas, Emily is in love with somebody almost as saccharine as herself: a Noble Youth endowed with "manly frankness, simplicity, and keen susceptibility to the grandeur of nature." His name is Valancourt, and his idea of passionate lovemaking is to beseech, if Emily thinks him "not unworthy such honour," whether he "might be permitted sometimes to enquire after your health." She, almost fainting with emotion: "I will acknowledge that you possess my esteem." He: "O Emily! this moment is the most sacred of my life...
Neither to Honour, nor to Int'rest true...