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Updated: June 24, 2025
So my father, at the age of sixteen and a half, lent a willing ear to the cooing voice of the marriage broker. Indeed, it was high time for him to marry. His parents had kept him so far, but they had two daughters to marry off, and not a groschen laid by for their dowries.
"We must certainly discuss the matter, if you are inclined to consider my proposal." "Well, you know what young women's dowries are in these days, my dear Marchese. We are none of us very rich." "I will make a proposal," said San Giacinto. "You shall give your daughter a portion.
Soon after their arrival in America they begin sending home rations of money to their parents; the old farm prospers once more, the daughters receive decent dowries. I know farmers who receive over three pounds a month from their sons in America all under military age. "We work, yes," they will then tell you, "but we also smoke our pipe."
He accumulated a large fortune in these dignified pursuits having, according to Winwood, landed estates to the annual amount of sixty thousand francs a-year and gave large dowries to his daughters, whom he married into noblest families; "which is the more remarkable," adds Winwood, "considering the services wherein he is employed about the king, which is to be the Mezzano for his loves; the place from whence he came, which is out of the kitchen of Madame the king's sister."
Of course advice is readily given her, favourable or otherwise to the suitor, but nobody can compel her to wed a man she is not inclined to. This total absence of coercion is no marvel, however, for in the forest there are no fortune-hunters, dowries being unknown, and there are no Dianas to join in the chase after a rent-roll.
Women who are true degenerates, but who have good dowries or "prospects," readily find husbands on the marriage market, while the most robust women of the people or of the middle class who have no dowries are condemned to the sterility of compulsory old-maiddom or to surrender themselves to a more or less gilded prostitution.
The Instauratio had contemplated the good of men "in the dowries of nature;" the Laws, their good "in society and the dowries of government."
"Well, well, you must marry a wife who can bring you the money; but you will have some difficulty in finding a match with such a fortune in our Faubourg, where daughters do not get large dowries." "Their name is enough," said Lucien. "We are only three wisk players Maufrigneuse, d'Espard, and I will you make a fourth?" said the Duke, pointing to the card-table.
There were also amusements, a free distribution of eatables, and also illuminations; and twelve young girls, whose marriage dowries were given by the city of Paris, were married to old soldiers.
The Comtesse de Montcornet told him of a young lady in the department of the Orne, a Mademoiselle Beatrix-Maximilienne-Rose de Casteran, the youngest daughter of the Marquis de Casteran, who wished to marry his two daughters without dowries in order to reserve his whole fortune for the Comte de Casteran, his son. The Casterans are, it seems, of the bluest blood.
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