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Those, moreover, who complain that girls are trained now too often merely as articles for the so-called 'marriage market, must remember this that the great majority of those who will have votes will be either widows, who have long passed all that, have had experience, bitter and wholesome, of the realities of life, and have most of them given many pledges to the State in the form of children; or women who, by various circumstances, have been early withdrawn from the competition of this same marriage-market, and have settled down into pure and honourable celibacy, with full time, and generally full inclination, to cultivate and employ their own powers.
Each "my lord" can make a "my lady," and therefore commands a distinctly higher price in the marriage-market of a wholesomely-minded community. Miss Higgs, with her fifty thousand pounds, might scorn the notion of becoming the Honourable Mrs. Percy Popjoy; but as Lady Magnus Charters she would feel a laudable ambition gratified.
The old days are over when consignments of damsels were made to the Indian marriage-market, in the assured certainty that the young ladies would be brides-elect before reaching the landing ghat.
She trembled from too much grief, and could not answer; and when she heard her mother say to Olive, 'Now that the coast is clear, we can go in heart and soul for the marquess, she shuddered inwardly and wished she might stay at home in Galway and be spared the disgrace of the marriage-market. It rained incessantly.
How many thousands of girls were there in England today, well-educated, skilled in the masonry of society to all outward seeming perfectly contented, awaiting their final summons to the marriage-market the culmination of their brief, inglorious careers.
Hanborough might make much of him, and then his Association would feel flattered by reflected honours." "You invariably set your face against your own advantages, and I am afraid I shall not live to see you where you ought to be. However, Reckage shall have the invitation. Now, good-night. By the by, have you heard that Castrillon is now in the marriage-market?
What, however, was well known throughout the village was that as Kapus and his wife never had a crown to bless themselves with, and had never saved enough to earn a rest for themselves in their old age, they had long ago determined that their daughter should be the means of bringing prosperity to them as soon as she was old enough for the marriage-market. Elsa was beautiful!
Besides, he could console himself with having buttered his crumbs pretty well in the marriage-market; and, with a rich wife, retired from senatorial drudgery to private repose, which was much more congenial to his easy temper.
I think if I had sowed all my wild oats, and been willing to settle down a bit into a respectable member of society, there was a time when he wouldn't have minded adopting me, for some old, unhappy love affair or other had kept him out of the marriage-market, eligible as he was, and he swore that he never meant to marry, even for the hope of having an heir to all his money.
He bit off the point of a pencil he had been sharpening with laborious care. "I should probably never have had a chance to marry a millionaire," she concluded reminiscently. "I'm not beautiful enough." With what abominable clearness she understood the game: the marriage-market; the buyer and the price. "I didn't suppose you were like that," he muttered, after what seemed a long silence.
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