...Curchod, daughter of a neighboring pastor, but his father forbade the alliance. In his own words, " After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate ; I...healed by time, absence and the habits of a new life." The lady became the wife of Jacques Necker, a Genevese banker, afterwards famous as the minister of...

...Grassy and Lausanne I indulged my dream of felicity : but on my return to England I soon discovered that my father would not hear of this strange alliance,...to my fate : I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son l ; my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life. My cure was accelerated...

...the course of true love will not run smooth ! The elder Gibbon would not hear of such a connection. After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate ; I...healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life. The lady lived to become the wife of Necker, the famous finance minister of France, and in years to...

...youth and passion were crushed, on my return, by the prejudice or prudence of an English parent. 1 sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son ; my wound was...healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life; and my cure was accelerated by a faithful report of the tranquility and cheerfulness of the Lady herself....

...all else about him, has become classical. ' I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as 'a son.' He proceeds: 'My wound was insensibly ' healed by time, absence and the habits of a new life.' It is shocking. Never, surely, was love so flouted before. Gibbon is charitably supposed by some persons...

...his father "would not hear of this strange alliance," and Gibbon himself was destitute and therefore helpless. " After a painful struggle, I yielded to...my fate ; I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son." The lady became famous as Madame Necker, and Gibbon never indulged again in any dream of matrimonial...

...strange alliance and would not consent to it. " After a painful struggle," says the lymphatic Gibbon, " I yielded to my fate ; I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son." It is pleasant to know that the beautiful girl was not wanting in suitors and that she soon afterward...

...his father "would not hear of this strange alliance," and Gibbon himself was destitute and therefore helpless. "After a painful struggle, I yielded to my fate; I sighed as a love", I obeyed as a son." The lady became famous as Madame Necker, and Gibbon never indulged again...

...his father "would not hear of this strange alliance," and Gibbon himself was destitute and therefore helpless. " After a painful struggle, I yielded to my fate ; I sighed as a love', I obeyed as a son." The lady became famous as Madame Necker, and Gibbon never indulged again...

...from tender memories of her. Gibbon did not make the faintest show of résistance to his father : " I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son. My wound was...healed by time, absence and the habits of a new life." His words seem to describe the recovery from a scratch rather than a wound. We are all eager to sympathise...