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You would much please the First Consul were you to write as near as possible according to the formula which my secretary has drawn up. It states nothing either against convenance, or against the customs of Sovereigns, or etiquettes of Courts, and I am certain is also perfectly congenial with your individual feelings."
In verse 26 we are vividly reminded of Herbert Spencer's words "'Le mariage de convenance' is legalised prostitution." Here we have a description of that courageous and wayward spirit that literally haunts the footsteps of every great thinker and every great leader; sometimes with the result that it loses all aims, all hopes, and all trust in a definite goal.
Supremacy of Her Genius Her Early Training Her Sensibility a Mariage de Convenance Her Salon Anecdote of Benjamin Constant Her Exile Life at Coppet Secret Marriage Close of a Stormy Life.
She was ready to admit that most men marry women who have not particularly enchanted them, and she had brought up Giselle with all those passive qualities, which, together with a large fortune, usually suit best with a 'mariage de convenance'.
This condition of the matrimonial market exists in no other country; even in England, where mariages de convenance are rare, “settlements” form an inevitable prelude to conjugal bliss. The fact that she contributes little or nothing to the common income in no way embarrasses an American wife; her pretensions are usually in an inverse proportion to her personal means.
"Do you think an artistic career a good thing for a woman?" he asked, with a slight touch of satire in his voice as he put the question. Gigue glanced up at him quickly and comprehendingly. "Ah, bah! Pour une femme il n'y'a qu'une chose l'Amour!" he replied "Mais au meme temps l'Art c'est mieux qu'un mariage de convenance!"
As a rule one or the other is the case, for it is only by the rarest and luckiest accident that convenance and passionate love go hand in hand.
He had felt happy to-night not madly, foolishly happy, as so many men feel at such moments, but reasonably, decorously pleased with his present and his future. He was making a mariage de convenance, but there had been another man on the lists, a younger man than himself, and that had added a most pleasing zest to the pursuit.
And mariages de convenance are played out, eh?" On another bench a little further away, a clean-shaven man with a highly intelligent face was talking animatedly. "Bosh! Your Lady Beltham is anything you like: what do I care for Lady Beltham? I shall never play women's parts, shall I? She does not stand for anything. But Gurn, now! There's a type, if you like!
Students of Chinese civilisation seem to agree that a mariage de convenance in China is more likely even than on the Continent to become instantly a marriage of affection. The pleasures of female society are almost denied the Chinaman; he cannot fall in love before marriage because of the absence of an object for his love.
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