1 For example: You brought a divorce case, or a restitution case, into the Consistory.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 26. I FALL INTO CAPTIVITY 2 In his own case, Alexey Alexandrovitch saw that a legal divorce, that is to say, one in which only the guilty wife would be repudiated, was impossible of attainment.
3 An attempt at divorce could lead to nothing but a public scandal, which would be a perfect godsend to his enemies for calumny and attacks on his high position in society.
4 His chief object, to define the position with the least amount of disturbance possible, would not be attained by divorce either.
5 But this step too presented the same drawback of public scandal as a divorce, and what was more, a separation, quite as much as a regular divorce, flung his wife into the arms of Vronsky.
6 I want a divorce, but the form in which it is possible is of great consequence to me.
7 Alexey Alexandrovitch had thought to pass at once into those frigid relations in which he ought to stand with the brother of a wife against whom he was beginning a suit for divorce.
8 Because I am beginning an action for divorce against your sister, my wife.
9 "Yes, I am brought to the painful necessity of seeking a divorce," he said.
10 All the hatred of that day when he had resolved on a divorce had sprung up again in his soul.
11 You know I had resolved on a divorce, and had even begun to take proceedings.
12 One of two things: either let him take her away, act with energy, or give her a divorce.
13 But apart from this, what more than all made divorce seem impossible to Alexey Alexandrovitch was, that by consenting to a divorce he would be completely ruining Anna.
14 The saying of Darya Alexandrovna at Moscow, that in deciding on a divorce he was thinking of himself, and not considering that by this he would be ruining her irrevocably, had sunk into his heart.
15 He had thought it all over hundreds of times, and was convinced that a divorce was not at all simple, as Stepan Arkadyevitch had said, but was utterly impossible.