My dear girl, you don’t consent to an abduction! You consent to an elopement, and I knew you wouldn’t do that.” ― Georgette Heyer, Black Sheep

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Oliver Goldsmith

 

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