He says to himself, "That woman shall be my wife;" and some day, months or years after, he actually marries her; even as, within a twelvemonth, having waited silently until she was twenty-one, Dr. Grey married Christian oakley.
"Christian's Mistake"
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
She was so simple; her forlorn, shut-up, unhappy life had kept her, if wildly romantic, so intensely, childishly true, that, whatever objections she had to Dr. Grey's offer, the idea that this could form one of them-that any one could suspect her-her, Christian oakley-of marrying for money or for a home, did not occur to her for an instant.
"Christian's Mistake"
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
She wondered how on earth Miss oakley would manage them.
"Christian's Mistake"
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik