A bizarre touch, which would perhaps make the opera unacceptable to present-day sensibilities, is that when, at the end of act 1, Ludovic hears of Francesca's intended marriage to Gregorio, that he shoots her, wounding her in the arm.
32.
The only words from which it can be contended that it is to be implied, are the words " I am glad to hear of your intended marriage with Ellen Nicholl . " But it appears from the fourth plea that the marriage had already been agreed on, and that the testator knew it.
33.
In his return trip to Persia from China ( setting out from the port at Quanzhou in 1291 ), Marco Polo said that he accompanied the Mongol princess K�k�chin in her intended marriage to Arghun, ruler of the Mongol Ilkhanate, but she instead married his son Ghazan following the former's sudden death.
34.
Referring to " Dybbuk, " which relates the Hebrew tale of a young man and woman whose love and intended marriage had been sworn to by their fathers, even before the children were born, Sheffer added : " I think it's one of Bernstein's most intensely composed works.
35.
On August 19, 1674 Peregrine White of Marshfield deeded son Daniel White, in consideration of his intended marriage, various buildings and lands in Marshfield from the time of his death, except if he died before his wife Sarah and Daniel was to pay monies to sister Sarah and Mercy when they became or married.
36.
Digges published several political and economic works, " The Worthiness of Warre and Warriors " ( 1604 ), " The Defence of Trade " ( 1615 ), " Rights and Privileges of the Subject " ( 1642 ), and, posthumously, " The Compleat Ambassador : or Two Treaties of the Intended Marriage of Qu.
37.
:" We are sure that your Magnificence knows how, after much complicated negotiation about the intended marriage of the renowned Prince Pedro, your eldest son, and our most beloved daughter Joan, which was designed to nurture perpetual peace and create an indissoluble union between our Royal Houses, we sent our said daughter to Bordeaux, en route for your territories in Spain.
38.
I am glad to hear of your intended marriage with Ellen Nicholl, and, as I promised to assist you at starting, I am happy to tell you that I will pay to you 150l yearly during my life time and until your annual income from your profession of a guineas, of which your own admission will be the only evidence that I shall receive or require.
39.
Owing to his intended marriage, however, the council raised an objection, because the said man had no kind of estate, neither practising a business nor being busy in agriculture, and about the woman s assets, nothing was known . One can assume that the said man cannot feed this female person with her two illegitimate children, much less should this family grow yet bigger .
40.
Among the family monuments ( in the National Library of Wales ) is an indenture of 1547 whereby Richard ap Moris Vaughan, father of Moris ap Richard ap Moris of Llanafan, in consideration of the intended marriage between the son and Elliw, daughter and heiress of Howell ap Jenkin, covenants, with other persons, to assure to the use of the son and Elliw two messages, etc . . . one of which is the place at Trausgoed, i . e . Plas Trawsgoed . Thereafter the family monuments supply much material as to the succeeding members of the family and the estate ( N . L . W . Calendar of Crosswood Deeds, 1927 ).
